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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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ywQJ TIL critics of early locomotives feared that women’s bodies were “not designed to go at 50 miles an hour,” and that women’s uteruses would fly out of their bodies as they were accelerated to that speed. Others suspected that any human body might simply melt at high speeds.
6yrw TIL Daddy LongLegs have penises and are therefore not a spider
bwQ0 TIL the melody of the American national anthem comes from a drinking song about Greek gods and sex by a British gentleman’s club
E1bVV TIL police are called to Walmart stores 3-4 times as often as they are to other big-box retailers like Target. 25% of all arrests in St. Petersburg, FL and 92% of larceny calls in Granite Falls, NC are attributed to single Walmart locations in each city.
PJ0L TIL that the amount of vasectomies increase as much as fifty percent leading up to March Madness, so men have an excuse to stay home and couch-ridden.