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TIL Nobel Prize-Winning physicist Richard Feynman put himself on the FBI's Do Not Call list

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PY6gV TIL Rabies has the highest mortality rate of any virus at 99.9%.
leoK TIL: Older generation spy satellites predated any form of digital imaging by decades. They literally exposed film and dropped it back to earth in small re-entry pods.
GY9oE Today I learned that the Original Olympic Flag was stolen by an American Diver on a dare then kept by him for 80 years.
yr98 TIL that most senior animators at Disney chose to work on Pocahontas rather than the Lion King as many at Disney had little faith in the project, leaving mostly first time animators to work on the Lion King.
E1myP TIL about Sarah Rector, who became rich at 12 due to an oil strike on her land. The Oklahoma Legislature declared her to be a white person in 1913, so that she would be allowed to travel in first-class accommodations on the railroad, as befitted her position.