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TIL of Anton's syndrome, a disorder where people believe they can see when in fact, they are cortically blind. They can't be convinced otherwise though and will be very offended if you point their blindness out and start confabulating/making things up when asked what exactly they are seeing.

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nePVP TIL Michelin are so secretive about their tires that they don't patent the rubber compound they use so it can't be copied.
p8wpZ TIL "breaker boys" between age 8-12 were employed to work 10 hours a day, 6 days a week to separate impurities from coal. Despite public disapproval, the practice of employing children in this line of work lasted for decades, only finally ending in the US in the 1920s.
69VOW TIL bees can be blue. Xylocopa Caerulea is a naturally blue carpenter bee from Southeast Asia. They are non aggressive and their honey is as thick as peanut butter
57Jn TIL that within a week after the “Raising the Flag at Iwo Jima” picture was taken. Half of the men in the picture were killed in combat.
GK97 TIL that after the bombing of Hiroshima, there were “ant-walking alligators” that the survivors saw everywhere, men and women who “were now eyeless and faceless — with their heads transformed into blackened alligator hides displaying red holes, indicating mouths.”