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TIL what would happen if you were born blind then got vision later in life.

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9dWm TIL the U.S. Navy has only one ship held captive by another nation. N. Korea took the USS Pueblo in 1968 and uses it as a tourist attraction. The U.S. still lists it as actively commissioned.
wol7E TIL that Phineas and Ferb holds the record for the most episodes of any Disney Channel animated series. The show ran for 222 episodes over four seasons, from 2007 to 2015.
VMOeB TIL that Arby's is a creative misspelling of the founders' name: Raffel Brothers and NOT Roast Beef which is commonly assumed.
grKK9 TIL that former President of Liberia Charles King has been awarded the Guinness World Record for the most fraudulent election in history. In the 1927 election, he secured victory with 234,000 votes in a country with a population of only 15,000.
OWdY TIL that Huntington Hartford inherited the equivalent of $1.3 Billion at age 12, and ended up bankrupt, through a combination of bad business decisions, art patronship, and an exceptionally lavish lifestyle