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TIL less than 10% of blind people can read Braille

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wB8Y TIL States require more training time to become a barber than a police officer
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yQXGw TIL Abraham Lincoln wrote poems throughout his life, including this one at the age of seventeen: Abraham Lincoln is my nam[e], And with my pen I wrote the same, I wrote in both hast and speed, and left it here for fools to read
aZMy TIL a 75-yr-old woman took shelter from a tornado in her bathtub. The tornado ripped off the roof of her house, lifted the tub out of her bathroom, and deposited it in the woods with the uninjured woman still in it.
Ny5M TIL Despite the health claims for gluten-free eating, there is no published experimental evidence to support such claims for the general population.