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TIL Childhood Amnesia is the inability of adults to recall memories before the age of two to four years.

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7Aob TIL a man who passed himself off as Tiger Woods and went on a $17,000 shopping spree was sentenced to 200 years in prison.
4kyrg TIL: The Fire Lance was one of the first gunpowder based weapons and is seen as an ancestor of firearms. A pyrotechnic device is attached to a polearm which gives it flamethrower and shotgun like effects, but only for one or two shots. The Mongols feared the weapon after the Jin used it in 1233
VBEyp TIL that Richard Feynman, one of the greatest theoretical physicists ever, was rejected admission to Columbia University because of his Jewish ancestry and instead went to MIT.
R78R8 TIL about the story Margaret Ann Bulkley, who dressed as a man for 56 years to become her alter-ego, Dr James Miranda Barry, 50 years before women were allowed to enroll into medical schools. Her secret was exposed when she died, after 46 years working as an army medical officer
9Eyr TIL, Ted’s recurring barber shop quartet in the tv-series Scrubs was an existing group formed by the actor who played Ted and they have released two albums to date.