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TIL that despite the common belief that seizures in epileptics are induced by flashing lights, 95-97% of epileptics do not have photosensitive epilepsy.

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9YJAM TIL: Sweden Almost Had Nuclear Weapons - By the mid-1960s, Sweden has enough fissile material to build a bomb in six months. To deliver the weapon they designed the Saab 36, a twin-engine Mach 2+ supersonic bomber.
Pmoe TIL That when Marjorie Gross, writer for Seinfeld (and others) was dying of Ovarian Cancer, she found humor in her imminent death by joking that she wanted to hold on until November 1996 so that she wouldn’t be reincarnated as Madonna’s child as she was pregnant at the time.
d8yMr TIL that in some cases, a severed fingertip can regrow close to the original.
AD5vw TIL Uganda has the youngest population of any country in the world, with a median age of 15.
jNReN TIL that a troubled intestine can send signals to the brain, just as a troubled brain can send signals to the gut. A person's stomach or intestinal distress can be the cause or the product of anxiety, stress, or depression due to gastrointestinal (GI) system and brain connections.