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TIL of Stephen Wiltshire who draws whole cities from memory. Here he draws a 30 feet panoramic drawing of Rome after visiting it for the first time and memorising within 5 hours.

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R7kyQ TIL Richard Aoki was a Japanese/American raised in an internment camp and later became a Field Marshal of the Black Panther Party; active as weapons expert and armorer. After his 'suicide' it was learned he was an FBI informant since joining the US military.
4XZ5J TIL: From 1963 to 1986, images from reconnaissance satellites were recorded on film. To get the film back to earth, it was dropped from the orbiting satellite in a bucket, and the bucket had to be caught in mid-air by planes.
RYP4 TIL a googolplex, a number which represents 10 to the power of 10 to the power of 100, is so big that there wouldn’t be enough space in the known universe to write it out even each digit was the size of a proton.
Jvdj TIL that a mysterious nerve disorder that hit some slaughterhouse employees with debilitating symptoms apparently was caused by inhaling a fine mist of pig brain tissue.
yYal TIL that Exxon’s CEO has been fighting to stop fracking activity near his Texas home