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TIL about Jeanna Giese, the first person to survive a rabies infection without first having received an anti-rabies vaccine. Since then, doctors have saved some other people using the protocol they developed when saving Giese.

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ba7a TIL It Was Once Someone’s Job to Chat With the King While He Used the Toilet
JYgO8 TIL France had a "proto-internet" called Minitel, to which half the population had access. It allowed for buying plane tickets, shopping, 24-hr news, message boards & adult chat services. It was used to coordinate a national strike in 1986. Some believe it hindered the internet's adoption in France.
Y7OJv TIL Peter Jackson owns the original Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
9Por TIL The Mantis Shrimp delivers a punch so fast and deadly that its acceleration is 10,000 times greater than gravity and creates a pressure wave that boils the water around it.
X0M8R TIL that Mount Disappointment in Australia was so named because when they discovered it in 1824, they found there were too many trees to see the bay. Also, one of the discoverers suffered incredible pain in his groin while there which necessitated a five-day rest for their party.