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TIL about Derek Paravicini, an autistic, blind, and severely mentally handicapped piano savant. He can play, transpose, and improvise on nearly any song he has ever heard despite his disabilities.

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8aPRX TIL that Steve Irwin was an "autodidact", meaning he was self-taught. He never went to college, and learned everything about zoology/biology by teaching himself and learning from his father.
bOaE TIL That if you see a cockroach in your home, in broad daylight, that means that you have a major infestation. This is most likely true because cockroaches hate the light, and if one ventures out during the day it’s because there are so many it was forced into the light.
nWeWr TIL that in 1965, artist Andy Warhol made an 8-hour, B&W silent film called “Empire” that consisted of one stationary shot of the Empire State Building. It had no characters or narrative, and Warhol stated that the purpose of the film was “to see time go by.”
DYjV TIL in 1898 Bayer introduced diacetylmorphine, marketed as a cure for morphine addiction and cough suppressant. The drug is better known by its trade name, Heroin.
9Y0bQ TIL about Clive Wearing, a man who suffers from amnesia so severe, that he can only remember the past seven seconds of his life. All after being infected with a virus in 1985.