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TIL Eşref Armağan is a naturally visually impaired Turkish man and was able to successfully portray models of objects he had not seen throughout his life by touching them with his fingertips. He is the first blind man who drew perspective art.

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6agQ TIL that on religion French philosopher Voltaire had to say “I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: ‘O Lord make my enemies ridiculous.’ And God granted it.”
X7wX TIL theres a DC Character from the 80s who got his powers from Cocaine. His only weakness? Cocaine Addiction
7rJxM TIL of Operation Wrath of God, or why Israeli Mossad agents are basically the badass spies we all thought only existed in movies. Motorcycle assassinations, silencers, car bombs, the works.
XG98 TIL that when Syphilis first surfaced, the English called it the ‘French disease’, the French called it the ‘Spanish disease’, Germans called it the French evil, Russians called it Polish disease, Poles called it Turkish disease, Turks called it Christian disease & Japan called it ‘Chinese pox’
57D8 TIL there was an actual federal court case titled “UNITED STATES v. APPROXIMATELY 64,695 POUNDS OF SHARK FINS”