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TIL in 1956 there was a military Vespa made for paratroopers

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6E8Ym TIL of Williams Syndrome, a condition that makes you friendly
Jym4 TIL a patient with Dissociative Identity Disorder who was blind for 15 years began regaining vision after psychotherapy. When a personality with vision was dominant the electrical activity in the visual cortex was normal. A blind personality would shut the visual cortex of their brain off.
e0k76 TIL possums and opossums are different animals and that the spelling shouldn't be used interchangeably
NXPWJ TIL: Jack Ruby, the man who killed JFK's assasin Lee Harvey Oswald on live television, was sentenced to death for his crime
0dJdv TIL that Australia is 1.2% larger than the Contiguous United States