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TIL about Blindsight, blindness caused by damage to the brain's occipital cortex. People with blindsight cannot consciously see, but they still have a sense of depth and motion, can develop reflexes, "sense" when something is in front of them, etc.

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VB7gD TIL Fresca and Squirt are grapefruit-flavored. I've never tried them but I always assumed they were lemon-lime flavored like Sprite/Sierra Mist/7-Up. As an avowed dipsomaniac, this revelation is a complete game-changer.
EXxw TIL it’s possible to be declared brain-dead falsely because most physicians look at the brain stem, which controls heart and lung functions, but not the cortex, which coordinates consciousness
rMy0 TIL In 1996, Mary Tyler Moore offered a restaurant $1,000 to sell her a 65 year-old lobster so she could return it to the wild. Rush Limbaugh then offered $2,000 to eat the lobster. The restaurant denied both offers and kept the lobster as a mascot.
LQ1Zd TIL that it's a common misconception that Tennessee Williams choked to death on a bottle cap and that his death report was corrected several months later (in August 1983) to say that he died from a toxic level of Seconal (a barbituary).
b60y4 Til the AD 17 Lydia earthquake caused the destruction of at least twelve cities in the region of Asia Minor (Turkey). Roman Emperor Tiberius agreed to waive all taxes due from the cities hit by the earthquake and sent aid to help restore them.