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TIL: Blindness is not all or nothing…it is a spectrum!

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e0Ggg TIL: In the first few years of life, more than 1 million new neural connections form every second.
l7RLr TIL Joan Robinson was denied Nobel Prize in Economics because she supported Mao's Economic Policies and of all 93 Economics Nobel Prize winners only 10 winners have been cited more widely than Robinson. Future Nobel Prize winners Joseph Stiglitz and Amartya Sen were the students of hers
R5bP8 TIL that the sons of Chang and Eng Bunker, who were the origin of the term "Siamese Twins" for conjoined twins, fought on the Confederate side during the US Civil War. Chang's son Christopher and Eng's son Stephen both fought as Confederate Cavalrymen, in separate units.
keXE TIL that the building of the Erie Canal is largely considered to be the deciding factor that made NYC the biggest city on the east coast, and not Philadelphia
DNDV TIL there is a cemetery for German WWII soldiers maintained in Normandy, France