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TIL a man was completely paralyzed but conscious for 23 years after being misdiagnosed with a coma

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8RVK TIL Indiana State Prison allows murderers to adopt cats and have them in their cells.
PYr9Z TIL the National Association for Rational Sex Offender Legislation exists, which argues for fair and balanced sentencing due to the spectrum of sex offense severity.
a8w19 TIL in 2015 the US Forces wanted to update the 'loose lips, sink ships' warning from WW2, Warning against sharing information with others outside the forces. They had to tailor it for the Social Media generation, and came up with: 'loose tweets destroy fleets'.
WkQLA TIL about Tilly Smith who, at age 10, helped save her family and hundreds of tourists in Thailand from the 2004 tsunami by recognizing warning signs of a tsunami that she had learned in her geography class two weeks earlier.
1VR4 TIL that there is a ‘Museum of Failed Products’ in Ann Arbor, containing thousands of consumer products that never took off, including gems like Clairol’s A Touch of Yoghurt shampoo and Pepsi’s AM Breakfast Cola.