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TIL some people are unable to visualize imagery in their mind, this condition is called aphantasia

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5YvgP TIL that for the 1973 Clint Eastwood western film 'High Plains Drifer' over 50 technicians and construction workers built an entire town—14 houses, a church, and a two-story hotel—in 18 days, using 150,000 feet of timber. Complete buildings, rather than facades, were built.
6EkB8 TIL it took the creator of the Rubik’s Cube more than a month to solve it for the first time after he initially invented it.
pBVG TIL that as a Jew, Jesus would have had short hair, but artists eventually gave him long hair to make him seem more god-like, in the image of the Roman gods Jupiter and Neptune
NjJ6 TIL L. Ron Hubbard considered himself a nuclear physicist, though “His university records indicate that his exposure to ‘nuclear physics’ consisted of one class in 'atomic and molecular phenomena’ for which he earned an 'F’ grade.”
rQw4 TIL AIDS was once known as the “4H Disease”, as it affected heroin addicts, homosexuals, hemophiliacs, and Haitians