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TIL Foreign accent syndrome is an extremely rare condition which makes someone beginner to fluent in a language after you wake up from Coma!

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gMw4L TIL as ruled by a court in China, "no one would in good conscience help someone unless they felt guilty" and thus is why nobody seems to help each other in situations like hit-and-runs
E14o TIL There are more black people under correctional control (prison, jail, parole, probation) today, than were enslaved in 1850
7aEP TIL Martin Van Buren (b. 1782) was the first president born a US citizen
ELPX TIL that Duncan Jones, the director of Moon, Source Code and the Warcraft movie, is the son of the late David Bowie
l77r7 TIL Plastic injection molding was invented in the 1800s to manufacture billiard balls out of celluloid, chiefly to replace ivory and save the lives of African elephants