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TIL about Selective Dorsal Rhizotomy, a treatment that can restore walking for children with cerebral palsy

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P11dn TIL A modest Georgian townhouse near Trafalgar Square is the only remaining building in the world where Benjamin Franklin resided. He lived there for 16 years from 1757 to 1773.
BMeK TIL some anthropologists believe that beer was responsible for the rise of human civilization.
jNmN TIL when Emperor Hirohito broadcast his surrender order to the Japanese people on August 14, 1945, his subjects could not understand the obscure Royal dialect in which he spoke. An Army officer had to follow the Emperor’s statement with a translation.
NLB1 TIL both ancient Greek and Egyptian medicine recognized obesity as a medical disorder. Hippocrates wrote that “corpulence is not only a disease itself, but the harbinger of others”.
PYrbE TIL Homer Simpson is in The Major League Baseball Hall of Fame.