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TIL that people who acquire blindness still have visual dreams, but people who have been blind since birth have auditory dreams.

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15vP TIL that the United States has less than 5% of the world’s population, but almost a quarter of the world’s prisoners. The United States has more citizens in prison than any other country in the world.
loVWa TIL Industrialist George Pullman was buried in a lead-lined mahogany coffin sealed in a subterranean reinforced concrete cube. After the national Pullman Strike failed, his family feared strikers would defile his gravesite in retaliation.
16Jgr TIL Picasso died in 1973, which is approximately two hundred years later than when I thought he lived.
pY01e TIL: In March 2000, MicroStrategy announced that it had significantly overstated its revenue, causing a 62% stock drop in one day, in what is regarded as the bursting of the dot-com bubble
W7oGL TIL That the oyster beds in Chesapeake Bay were once so large, they posed a navigational hazard to ships.