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Today I Learned a man landed a plane in the streets of New York. Then did it again because someone didn't believe him about the first time.

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ZBvB TIL Hans Asperger, who identified autism in 1944, once said, “It seems that for success in science and art, a dash of autism is essential. The necessary ingredient may be an ability to turn away from the everyday world, to rethink a subject with originality so as to create in new untrodden ways.”.
LkbNZ TIL that in rare cases, traumatic brain injuries can cause FAS, or foreign-accent syndrome. This results in a patient's native speech taking on entirely new tone, or accent.
8004 TIL that 22% of men and 30% of women in Eastern Congo report being victims of conflict-related sexual violence, and that 97% of the NGOs working in that field don’t even mention male victims in any of their literature.
16wlV TIL hippo skin naturally secretes anti-bacterial sunscreen. It's red and sometimes called "blood sweat", though it is neither blood nor sweat.
0wnxy TIL Eliot Ness, famous for taking down feared gangster and bootlegger Al Capone, died a penniless alcoholic that no one had heard of. His autobiography was published after his death and only then did he become famous with TV shows and movies being made of his exploits.