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p8wx8 TIL that Balto, the sled dog who delivered lifesaving diphtheria antitoxin to Nome, Alaska, in 1925, was present for the unveiling of his own statue in Central Park!
lopjr TIL severe birth defects are common in Iraq to this day because the US used weapons made with depleted uranium in the war
KO6Gw TIL that the opposite of deja vu is jamais vu. It is most commonly experienced when a person momentarily does not recognise a word or, less commonly, a person or place, that she or he knows. This can be achieved by anyone by repeatedly writing or saying a specific word out loud.
rNbY4 TIL the in the 1800s that election tickets were premade tickets that had the names of what ever candidate a party had in an election that you picked up from members of the party or at party events; fill in ballots with all the candidates were not a thing.
xROg TIL that 20/20 vision isn’t actually “perfect”, and that professional baseball players average around 20/12 vision; greater acuity than conventional eye charts test for.