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TIL: Some people can hear their eyes move

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Y7WjA TIL that there have been three major plague pandemics in history. The Plague of Justinian in the 6th century, the Black Death in the 14th century, and the 3rd Pandemic beginning in 1855. The 3rd Pandemic was considered active until 1959, and hundreds of cases of plague are still reported every year.
8GBb TIL That Mark Twain was born shortly after Halley’s Comet and predicted he would “go out with it” too. He died a day after the comet’s subsequent return
VMyZ TIL that Hans Zimmer, one of Hollywood’s elite composers (Rain Man, The Lion King, Gladiator), was a member of The Buggles, famous for their hit single Video Killed the Radio Star
awWWN TIL that the first two toys to use electronic sound chips to make noise rather than an analogue recordings, Simon and the Speak & Spell, both got their hardware from graphic calculator maker Texas Instruments