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TIL that curling originated in Scotland

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5NAQ TIL that if you leave lime juice on your hands on a sunny day, your skin can get second degree burns and be discolored for YEARS… It’s called “margarita dermatitis” because people often get it while making margaritas outside!
pYdAO TIL of Anton-Babinski syndrome, a form of blindness from damage to the brain—cortical blindness, where the patient firmly denies their loss of vision, as the disconnection between speech and visual pathways causes them to lose the concept of sight, filling in gaps with hallucinations—confabulations.
4XBYo TIL that Robespierre abolished slavery in French colonies in 1794, only for Napoleon to re-introduce slavery in 1802
oNxo TIL during the height of the Cold War the “missile gap” was highly exagerated; the Soviets may have only had 4 ICBM’s
7mmM TIL the debut episode for Wile E. Coyote and The Road Runner was called: Fast and Furry-ous