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TIL: While there is aphantasia, the inability to produce mental images, there is also the even lesser known hyperphantasia, the ability to produce extremely vivid mental images.

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aw6eA TIL in the 1940s, AT&T sued Harry Tuttle for inventing the Hush-A-Phone—a device that silenced phones from eavesdroppers. AT&T argued the “device hadn’t been installed by their company” and the FCC voted in AT&T’s favor, but Tuttle continued to fight the case in open court and eventually won.
5V5kD TIL the first international war crime trial took place in the Holy Roman Empire in 1474. Peter von Hagenbauch was found guilty of atrocities committed during the occupation of Breisach, and beheaded.
LQXed TIL that the inventor of chiropractic said the idea came to him during a seance, from the ghost of a doctor who had died 50 years earlier.
R7XKw TIL that during World War 1, the American Expeditionary Forces tried to make the French treat Black soldiers in accordance with Jim Crow laws ''due to concerns that black soldiers and officers working with the French were being treated with too much “familiarity and indulgence.”
0w7Mp TIL King Solomon had 700 wives and 300 concubines.The wives were described as foreign princesses, including Pharaoh's daughter and women of Moab, Ammon, Edom, Sidon and of the Hittites. His marriage to Pharaoh's daughter appears to have cemented a political alliance with Egypt.