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Today I learned about prosopagnosia, a condition which inhibits/removes your ability to distinguish people based on their facial features and expressions, even loved ones and relatives.

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NXw6M TIL that a "Silent Man" in the UK repeatedly gets arrested for standing on one road to block traffic. He never speaks a word, not even to paramedics, police, the court, or his own lawyer. Ongoing for more than a decade. Everytime he is released, he repeats the crime and remains completely silent.
xVpDg TIL that Jean-Claude van Damme was originally cast as the Predator, but his physique wasn't large enough to compete with Schwarzenegger, Carl Weathers, and Jesse Venture. Kevin Peter Hall was cast, after he had finished shooting Harry and the Hendersons.
mG7O TIL in the US west of Washington DC there’s a National Radio Quiet Zone - 13,000 square miles (34,000 sq km) of radio silence where cellphones are banned
BgBPb TIL the Reverend Wilbert Awdry invented some stories about trains as a way of entertaining his son who had measles, one of the trains was called Thomas the Tank Engine
00yv TIL Ray Bradbury attributed his habit of daily writing to an encounter as a child with a carnival entertainer, Mr. Electrico, who touched Bradbury on the nose with an electrified sword, made his hair stand on end, and shouted, “Live forever!” Bradbury wrote every single day of his life thereafter.