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TIL mathematician Max Little invented a brilliant way to diagnose Parkinson’s Disease by simply listening to someone’s voice on the phone. Success rate: an amazing 99%!

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J1RO1 TIL about the Torino Scale, a tool used to determine the likelihood of an asteroid impact with Earth.
xV070 TIL that Carlotta J. Thompkins, also known as Lottie Deno, was in the late 1800s Texas' most famous poker player. Later in life she and her husband became upstanding citizens in Deming, New Mexico, where her husband became a bank vice president and she helped found St. Luke's Episcopal Church.
rRwR4 TIL Pakistan is planning on building an amusement park on the site of Osama Bin Laden's compound in Abbottabad where he was killed by Navy SEALS in 2011. It will include a zoo, restaurants, water sports, miniature golf as well as rock climbing and paragliding.
yQxwv TIL that a lottery winner wore a scream mask to collect his one million so that his relatives won't take his money
LvBP TIL that after being ordered by court to pay $3.6M in fines, Peter Sunde Kolmisoppi (Pirate Bay Co-Founder) wrote them an ‘IOU’