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TIL, that cougar's mating call sounds like murder of woman

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R1B4 TIL a philosophy riddle from 1688 was recently solved. If a man born blind can feel the differences between shapes such as spheres and cubes, could he, if given the ability, distinguish those objects by sight alone? In 2003 five people had their sight restored though surgery, and, no they could not.
gMLwW TIL that there are many more units of data bigger than a terabyte. 1 Yottabyte is the biggest unit of data and it's so big that it is 1208925819614629.25 Gigabytes or 1208925819614 Terabytes of data.
QNKYL TIL the USA has 4 of the world’s top 5 air forces- each branch of the military individually ranks in the global top 5
m15vp TIL the town of White Post, Virginia was named after an 11ft. post marker set by George Washington in 1750.
RdAQ TIL of Albert Battel, a German officer serving in the Wehrmacht during WWII, who commanded his whole unit to protect Jews and threatened the SS to kill them if they crossed a bridge into a Jewish ghetto to round them up.