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TIL an Austrian scientist created goggles that turned his vision completely upside down. Stumbling and tripping over everything at first, in just 5 days his brain completely adapted to the vision change and he saw everything as ‘normal.’

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4kXPo TIL An orange tree blight began spreading from China in the 90s. It has now infected trees worldwide and is decimating orange production. Orange harvest is down 72% in Florida and 31% in Brazil. There is no known cure for the blight and scientists are frantically trying to find a cure.
p8x94 TIL that Former presidents of the United States are not allowed to drive a vehicle, except on private roads. They have to be accompanied by Secret Service and a driver for the rest of their lives. This measure was taken for security reasons following the assassination of JFK.
8erYK TIL about 'Big Bertha', one of the smartest confidence women in America. Her scams were ingenious.
78rRx TIL in the original pressings of Stevie Wonder's album "The Secret Life of Plants," manufacturers sprayed the cover's inside with a perfume of flower scent (you can still faintly detect it in some copies.) Then people discovered the vinyl records were being eaten away by the scent solution.
wL5Z1 TIL there exists a kind of garlic called "solo garlic" which doesn't have separate cloves but is just one solid piece.