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TIL there is a Doctor in Nashville who has developed a way to cure the blind using tissue from an adult donor, and an amniotic membrane transplant with tissue from the amniotic sac.

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VA6p TIL Attorneys from Coors brewery were appointed by Reagan to the EPA after campaign donations by Joseph Coors. The EPA then lifted restrictions on the dumping of toxic waste in Colorado, home of the Coors brewery.
rePo TIL there is a Rubiks Cube made for the blind
P1Wbw TIL Abacus, a NY Chinese bank and 2,531st largest in the US, was the only US bank indicted for the 2008 financial crisis. An isolated incident of laundering money turned into an indictment for mortgage fraud. "They were the ones singled out." Abacus was found not guilty on all 240 charges.
YXwx TIL That there are spiders who are social and live in colonies. A single nest was reported to be over 25 feet in length, 6-8 feet wide and 4-5 feet high – perhaps the home to 50,000 spiders.
LaQQ TIL Julie D'Aubigny was a famous 17th century French opera singer who once entered a convent just so she could have sex with a nun. She also had a habit of seducing women at parties, which would lead their husbands to challenge her to a duel. She was an expert duelist and killed 10 men like this.