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TIL many people can't visualize mental images, which was a largely unstudied phenomenon and only given the term "aphantasia" in 2015.

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PYpwL TIL bone spurs are permanent deposits and do not heal and go away
xlyb TIL that bears can drastically reduce their heart rate when injured as a defense mechanism against blood loss.
k4R4 TIL the United States has more aircraft carriers in service than the rest of the world combined.
yVXWp TIL Lincoln said “there is a physical difference between the white and black races which..will forever forbid the 2..from living together on terms of social and political equality..there must be a position of superior and inferior..I as much as any am in favor of having the superior..the white race”
ADBm7 TIL: With India on lockdown, endangered sea turtles are on course to lay 60,000,000 eggs this year. Over 475,000 Olive Ridley sea turtles came ashore, along the coast of the eastern state of Odisha, to dig their nests and lay eggs