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TIL about Veronica Seider who possessed a visual acuity 20 times better than average. She could identify people at a distance of more than a mile (1.6 km).

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78aPZ TIL burns have been reclassified to superficial, partial thickness, deep partial thickness, and full thickness.
698Bm TIL that approximately 7% of our weight is our blood
APKa TIL a castaway drifted for 13 months across the Pacific Ocean, claiming that he had been living off fish and turtles he had caught and relying on rainwater, and sometimes his own urine, to drink. His boat was found covered in barnacles and with the carcasses of several turtles littering the deck.
v1K7R TIL that the Gnarls Barkley song "Crazy" developed out of a conversation between Danger Mouse and CeeLo Green talking about ways in which they could make people think we were crazy. CeeLo took the conversation, turned it into "Crazy" and recorded it in one take
GAp9E TIL the City of Boston has border collies that scare off geese in the esplanade along the Charles River to prevent them from nesting.