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TIL there are 'e-books' for the blind/visually impaired. The braille terminal is an electro-mechanical device that displays braille characters, usually by means of round-tipped pins raised through holes in a flat surface

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1a5pV TIL just 12 days before he died of a drug overdose, Mitch Hedberg went on the Howard Stern show and said, 'I got the drugs under control now,' and that he only used them for the 'creative side of it'.
Brgwy TIL President Harry S. Truman had a sign on his desk in the Oval Office that said, "The Buck Stops Here."
v1lxK TIL the 2002 SARS virus also originated from cave dwelling bats, discovered through tracing by scientists at Wuhan Institute of Virology.
1kD TIL Volkswagen used to award savings bonds to babies born in beetles.
KDGw TIL that when asked by his generals on his deathbed on who should succeed him, Alexander the Great may have said the name of one of his generals, “Krateros”. But because Krateros wasn’t around, the generals may have chosen to hear “Kratistos” or “To the strongest.”