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TIl Australia and New Zealand have never had rabies

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DQGOe TIL of Henry J. F. Miller, an American major general in the European theater during WWII who was demoted to lieutenant colonel and sent back to the United States after he leaked the date of the D-Day invasion
e0we5 TIL that the IKEA name is an acronym that consists of the initials of the founder Ingvar Kamprad, Elmtaryd (the farm where he grew up), and Agunnaryd (his hometown)
p8pXN TIL that Cher was the first woman to regularly display her belly button on television, becoming the first woman to do so in front of a live studio audience in 1971
worn6 TIL that in 2021, scientists successfully revived microscopic organisms called rotifers that had been frozen in Siberian permafrost for 24,000 years, and they were still able to reproduce.
1aMBW TIL: NASA and NOAA feared 5G would mess up weather forecast