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TIL Louis Braille lost his sight at 5 years old after an accident trying to make holes in a piece of leather with an awl. 10 years later, he completed his system of reading and writing for use by the blind or visually impaired. Braille created his own raised-dot system by using an awl.

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e0ONn TIL that the three-toed skink can both lays eggs and gives birth to live young.
4kNxa TIL about Areca Nut (Betel Nut) - a widely consumed psychoactive substance in Southeast Asia and parts of the Pacific, with severe health risks affecting millions of people worldwide, and ongoing efforts to combat its addictive properties.
ZE4Y TIL of Betteridge’s law of headlines which states: “Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no.”
Elax TIL the CIA spent millions of dollars installing spy equipment inside the body of a cat only to have it run over by a car on its first test mission.
xV0Z5 TIL of the Rosewood massacre an attack in 1923 on the predominantly African American town of Rosewood, Fl. by large groups of white aggressors. The town was entirely destroyed by the end of the violence, and the residents were driven out permanently. It was mostly forgotten until the 1980s.