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TIL that author Terry Pratchett can no longer read.

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neZ1Y TIL Jeff Bezos started Amazon with a $300,000 investment - from his parents.
No18 TIL a Soviet soldier who went missing after a battle in Afghanistan in 1980 was found alive in 2013, living in the Afghan city of Herat. He had been rescued by locals and eventually became a nomadic sheikh and healer under the name of Sheikh Abdullah.
4XPwR TIL The first candidate of the Anti-Masonic Party was himself a Freemason
W7D9o TIL Venezuela has by far the biggest proven oil reserves in the world, but produces ~10x less oil per day than the country in second place by proven oil reserves (Saudi Arabia)
QJVWX TIL of Medgar Evers, an American civil rights activist in Mississippi, the state's field secretary for the NAACP, and a World War II veteran who had served in the United States Army and was assassinated in 1963 by a member of the "White Citizens' Council"