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TIL that women often get hiccups when they are having a stroke

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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.
gMmQL TIL 40 papyri from 150-99 BC found in Egypt form an archive recording 3 generations of a common soldier's family. Personal letters, divorce papers, contracts andwills tell of his emmigration from Crete, his marriages, career and death, as well as the life of his daughter, her 4 siblings and her kids
RRZ4 TIL that Stan Lee didn’t use his given name (Stanley Lieber) for his comics, because he was saving it for when he wrote serious literature
gMQjb TIL: Benfords law is a logarithmic graph that can be found anywhere in the world. The IRS even uses it to detect tax fraud.
Roya TIL That English musician David Bowie does not have any recollection of creating his critically acclaimed album,“ Station to Station.” This is because he was in a psychotic state of terror, fueled by an “astronomical” cocaine habit.