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TIL that there are cortically blind people who can see with their subconscious, blindsight.

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9Dmp TIL Chef Boy-Ar-Dee is spelled that way so that Americans could correctly pronounce “Boiardi.”
5Xon TIL in Surfers Paradise, Australia, there is an association of bikini-clad meter maids who will top off your parking meter to prevent you from getting a parking ticket!
9m4m TIL the ancient Egyptians measured the flood levels of the Nile and levied taxes according to how high water levels were. If the water level indicated there would be a strong harvest, taxes would be higher.
6vEl TIL law enforcement and the entire concept of a ‘police force’ is a very new historical concept. Outside of private guards and community vigilantism, policing did not even exist until 1707 in Great Britain - and it was 1829 before police were established in London.
xVpy5 TIL that the writer of "Angel Voices, Ever Singing" banned it from being published with a tune by Arthur Sullivan of Gilbert & Sullivan