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TIL of Williams Syndrome, a condition that makes you friendly

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RYO8 TIL that Helen Keller and Mark Twain were good friends, and he got his rich friends to pay for her education at Radcliffe.
ADyB4 TIL Michael Jackson imagined and recorded the demo of 'Beat it' only by using his voice and layering tracks together before sending it to the producer.
BGXr TIL of Jin Ling cigarettes, a brand of cigarettes that is never legally sold and is designed explicitly for smuggling and cigarette tax evasion.
e0GAJ TIL that there were kamikaze torpedo/submarines called 'Kaiten' used by the Japanese at the end of WW2. They were fast, silent, made no bubbles, and contained 1.44 tons of TNT in the tip.
Z8w1o TIL that the beloved black and white TV Classic The Addams Family’s had a colorful set that consisted of pinks, turquoise, reds, blues, etc as they filmed better in black and white!