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TIL that Dr. David W. Hartman is the first blind person to graduate from medical school (since 1872)

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o8GW TIL that in 2014 Sony made a cassette tape that could hold 185 terabytes of data or the equivalent of 3,700 Blu-ray discs.
GoXN TIL that ritchie valens was only 17 on the day the music died and he recorded “La Bamba” when he was 16.
wGDP TIL members of the Rockabilly community dress themselves, drive cars, decorate their houses, and run their families like it’s the 1950s.
rRVGd TIL in 1898, some 73% of Alabama's entire annual state revenue came from convict leasing.
4YPJ TIL that the “Byzantine Empire” is a historiographical term “created after the end of the realm; its citizens continued to refer to their empire as the Roman Empire”