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TIL E.T was a 12-year-old disabled boy in a suit

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GxBj TIL that 63% of registered American voters believe in at least one political conspiracy theory
R7pda TIL A new, low-cost wound dressing leverages energy generated from a patient's own body motions to apply gentle electrical pulses at the site of an injury. In rodent tests, the dressings reduced healing times to a mere three days compared to nearly two weeks for the normal healing process.
gMmd8 TIL In the 1970s the police discovered a couple who had kept their daughter imprisoned inside a locked room for 13 years. With no contact with the outside world, little stimulation, and very limited communication with her parents her brain wasn't capable of learning any language.
8e448 TIL about a Frenchman named Tarrare, who was a French showman, soldier and spy known for an unusually large appetite. He could eat live animals, quarter of a bullock in a day, he was suspected of eating a one year old toddler while in the hospital. Finally died of exudative diarrhea and tuberculosis
e0BwE TIL that North Korean college coders beat Stanford University in a 2016 competition