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TIL of blind sight, a type of blindness where the eyes are still functional. As a result, the individual is not physically aware of their surroundings, but their brain can subconsciously see and avoid obstacles.

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yQdwe TIL 1960s, a sugar industry executive wrote fat checks to a group of Harvard researchers so that they’d downplay the links between sugar and heart disease. The low-fat, high-sugar diets that health experts subsequently encouraged are now seen as a main driver of the current obesity epidemic
woON1 TIL former UFC heavyweight champ Bas Rutten was a sickly child, and badly bullied. After seeing "Enter the Dragon," he started training in martial arts. At age 14 he made a list of his childhood bullies and beat them up one by one.
rQ40 TIL that in 1312, a few Cockchafer Beetles, which were a major pest for crop farmers, were brought into a courtroom in Avignon and ordered to withdraw to designated territory. When the beetles (obviously) didn’t comply, they were collected and killed.
D1jdD TIL two regions of the brain, reward pathways and the hippocampus, physically shrink when we're clinically depressed and gaming reverses that damage. Gameplay hyperstimulates areas of the brain associated with motivation, goals, learning and memory; making it the neurological opposite of depression.
69lLW TIL Chuck Palahniuk, author of Fight Club, wrote the novel Lullaby to cope with having participated in the decision to give the death sentence to his father's murderer, a man named Dale Shackelford.