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TIL Jane Jetson from The Jetsons was only 18 when she had Judy

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PG1Z TIL of the Anton-Babinski syndrome, a rare type of brain damage, where the person loses complete sense of sight, but is absolutely unaware of their blindness.
R5pW6 TIL that the numerals that the majority of the world uses today were introduced from Béjaïa, Algeria to Europe via Italy through the Liber Abaci, a 13th century book written by Leonardo Fibonacci, who was introduced to them during his time in Béjaïa.
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