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TIL: For some people, recognizing faces is an impossibility due the neurological disorder known as prosopagnosia (also called face blindness). For them, loved ones can appear to be strangers.

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Mp0W TIL that the current year in North Korea is 105. North Korea uses a calendar that begins with the birth of Kim Il-Sung.
6JW8 TIL that in 2004 a $300,000 diamond was lost in an F1 crash. The diamond was attached to the car to promote Ocean’s 12 and was never recovered after the crash
E1147 TIL that the letter J as we know it today was not invented until the mid 16th century.
m10Ro TIL between 1400 & 1782, around 40k-60k people were killed on suspicion of practising witchcraft, primarily in Europe. Some witch hunts would last for years and some sources estimate 100,000 trials occurred. Some regions burnt the suspects at the stake, of whom roughly 80% were women, most above 40.
JYRkj TIL: During 1944, license plates were manufactured from pressed soybean fiberboard due to a shortage of steel caused by the war. Goats, cows, and mice reportedly enjoyed the taste of these plates, with some vehicle owners losing their plates to a snack for the animals.