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TIL the year is 2079, in Nepal

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1exW TIL the only reliable test for rabies requires an examination of an animal’s brain (post-mortem)
ADREd TIL, of the Nonseum in Austria, a museum for intentionally useless inventions. Items on display include a cigarette with a filter on both ends.
4Do6 TIL that during the Battle of Stalingrad, Soviet forces held a single apartment building for 60 days against daily German assaults. The building was transformed into a fortress, with 4 layers of barbed wire, minefields, and a machinegun in nearly every window.
Aped TIL that mammals tend to have twice the number of teats as the typical number of offspring that would be born at once; this is why humans have two breasts
a86LN TIL Jay-Z managed to obtain the permission to have a sample from Annie on "Hard Knock Life (Ghetto Anthem)" by writing the copyright holder a letter about his childhood trip to see the Broadway musical. However, the letter was a fib and Jay-Z had never seen the show.