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TIL in Japan, beer cans have braille text on them so blind people do not mistake them for soft drinks

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YvXA TIL Between 1898 and 1994, the U.S. government intervened successfully to change governments in Latin America a total of at least 41 times.
Ood9X TIL about “dissimilation.” A linguistic phenomenon where people tend to drop an R if it is in the middle of a word and comes before another syllable that has an R. Ex.“suprise”/“surprise,”/“forward”“forward,” /“catepillar”/“caterpillar,” and “paticular”/“particular.”
9Ypp7 TIL that for more then 50 years, there was an operational telephone booth in the Mojave desert, in the middle of nowhere.
gO09 TIL Pope Benedict XVI doesn’t know how to drive and never got a driver’s license. But he does have a helicopter pilot’s license and even likes to fly the papal helicopter.
AD0dd TIL that Left-brain vs. Right-brain dominance is a myth. Lateralization is unique in every individual and researchers can not find any evidence that one side of the brain or another works by itself for functions of our personalities.