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TIL fewer than 10% of legally blind people in the United States can actually read Braille.

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V0jQ TIL there’s a computer marketed to the Amish. It has no Internet, no video, no music.
165oV TIL: A shrimp's heart is in it's head!
Wkev8 TIL Scientists managed to edit human embryos, freeing them from a piece of faulty DNA which caused a deadly heart disease that ran in families. The embryos were allowed to develop for 5 days before they stopped the experiment.
XEegD TIL of an Eating Disorder first coined in 1996 called Orthorexia Nervosa (that is not in the officiall not in theDSM-V) where sufferers of this ED have an unhealthy obsession and fixation on food quality, health and purity that is rooted in food and eating restriction.
7EEL TIL that interracial marriages were illegal in Alabama until a vote in 2000; but even then 40% of the voters wanted to keep it illegal.