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TIL some people have “blindsight.” They are blind due to damage in the brain’s visual cortex, but the eye and optic nerve are fine. They can’t consciously see anything but can guess their way through an obstacle course or guess the emotional content of a photo through intuition with decent accuracy.

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ADELo TIL of Cymburga, a 15th Century Polish princess who became the female ancestor of all later Habsburgs. She was "renowned both for her beauty and for her ability to drive nails into oak planks with her bare fists."
16JLd TIL while filming the Christmas movie “It’s a Wonderful Life” (1946), the original plan for the ending was to have the characters sing Beethoven’s “Ode to Joy.” It was later changed to “Aude Lang Syne.”
LkgV0 TIL that the Russian space agency decided to turn an old space suit into a satellite. The result looked like an astronaut stranded in outer space.
R78k1 Today I learned that the 1883 eruption of Krakatoa was so loud it ruptured eardrums of people 40 miles away, travelled around the world four times, and was clearly heard 3,000 miles away.
Ajo TIL John Hughes wrote the script of Ferris Bueller’s Day Off in just 6 days.