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TIL less than 10% of blind people can read Braille

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5YyBp TIL that Mustafa Ben Halim, who was Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Libya from 1954-57, is still alive at age 99 and is the world's oldest living head of government. He spent 42 years in exile from 1969 to 2011.
yQGLX TIL that Quentin Tarantino used to work as an usher at a movie theater, meaning he got to watch movies for free--but it was a porn theater, and porn movies bored him.
XjdR TIL James Earl Jones stuttered so bad as a child that he was functionally mute for 8 years until an English teacher in High School discovered he had a gift for poetry and helped him end his silence.
BrwXe TIL on April 18, 1930 the BBC made an announcement at the beginning of its daily radio program that there was no news. For the rest of the 15-minute time slot, the station played only piano music and it became known in history as The Day Without News’
Gm81 TIL MythBusters confirmed the myth that a scuba diver can wear a tuxedo underneath his drysuit, go underwater, resurface, strip off his scuba gear, and be able to present the tuxedo at a yacht party in the harbour as in James Bond Goldfinger.