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TIL there was a man born with no depth perception, but while attending a 3D movie, his brain repaired the condition.

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aX4Z TIL that the first documented fire tornado occurred in Canberra, Australia in 2003. As opposed to a fire whirl (fire sucked up into the air), a fire tornado is a literal tornado made of fire.
KY8vE TIL the Gibson guitar that Peter Frampton played on his 1976 album “Frampton Comes Alive!”, was lost for 32 years after the guitar was put on a cargo plane that crashed. The guitar ended up being owned by a musician on a Caribbean island, before a collector spotted it and contacted Frampton in 2012.
05ZA TIL that Foster the People’s ‘Pumped Up Kicks’ is under a radio ban on many stations after the Sandy Hook Elementary Shooting
vkwK TIL that the last US-company mass-producing audio cassettes, founded in 1969, had their best year in 2015, selling about 10 million tapes
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