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TIL researchers have invented a helmet that gives humans simulated 360° of Vision, allowing a person to avoid a ball thrown from behind and catch an object tossed outside the normal human field of view.

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MrL0 TIL Nelson Mandela lost his son to the AIDS epidemic and personally wrote checks to help fund the cost of treatment for AIDS patients
b9GGN TIL of Héctor Castro(Uruguayan football player) who lost his arm in an accident at 13 and later went on to win Olympic Gold in 1928 and scored the decisive goal for his team in 1930 FIFA World Cup culminating his inspiring story.
GYw8J today I learned that tesla coils break down oxygen in the air and turn it into ozone. the heat and power of the plasma produced is so great that it splits apart molecules.
7raNb TIL that 20% of Finnish Americans live in Michigan or Minnesota, and that both of those states have more than twice the Finnish American population of the third (California)
8e6OG TIL the largest newborn ever recorded was "Babe", a 22-lb and 28-inch boy born in Seville, OH on Jan. 19, 1879. Sadly he only lived 11 hours. His parents, Anna Haining Bates and Martin Van Buren Bates, were both almost 8 feet tall.