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TIL that stargardt disease makes the center of your vision blind, making you only being able to see the sides

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NXmYE TIL that Hall of Fame NHL player Red Kelly played part of his career while also serving as a Member of Parliament in the House of Commons in Canada. In the 1963 election for his riding he beat another person associated with the NHL: Player agent and future convicted fraudster Alan Eagleson.
DpwV TIL in 2002, a mid-air collision between a passenger jet and cargo jet took the lives of all 71 people aboard both planes. A man whose family was killed in the collision later stabbed to death the Air Traffic Controller that was on duty at the time of the collision.
NPyb TIL that Robert Catesby was the leader of the Gunpowder Plot, even though the day is named after Guy Fawkes
a8MnJ TIL Akira Toriyama's biggest reason for Goku's hair going blond when he went Super Saiyan was to save work for his assistant whose time was always taken up by filling in Goku's black hair.
gGeb TIL that during American Civil War some soldier’s wounds glowed blue; soldier’s whose wounds glowed had better chance of surviving, and so the glow was called “Angel’s Glow”. Now it is known that the luminescence is due to bacteria that produce antibiotics and that live in nematodes