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TIL less than 10% of blind people can read Braille

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69eJQ TIL that there are tonsils in the human brain. The cerebellar tonsils are structures on the underside of the cerebellum, at the back of the brain. Also, TIL 'flocculonodular' is an actual word for a particular lobe of the cerebellum.
plDb TIL there are children known as “Guevedoces” in the Dominican Republic that do not grow their penises until around puberty. Many are assumed to be female until then.
5VYXk TIL of the Potato Park. A seed bank in Peru, it is managed by Indigenous communities and focuses on Andean crops and plants. It specialises in potatoes, and houses samples of 2300 of the 4000 varieties in the world
v1GX8 TIL that Mount Everest's Peak XV was calculated to be exactly 29,000 ft, but was publicly declared to be 29,002 ft in order to avoid the impression that an exact height of 29,000 ft was nothing more than a rounded estimate.
GYxJN TIL - Iron Man first appeared in comics in March, 1963 and fought the Viet Cong two years before the US ground war there