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TIL: Skateboarding is becoming popular in Afghanistan - especially amongst women

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PYxGG TIL A woman smelled Parkinson's Disease on 7 out of 12 people in a test to prove her ability. Though only 6 of the 12 people had Parkinson's, she actually smelled the disease on one person three months before he was diagnosed.
MgLK TIL of a recent study that suggests tooth enamel and dentin can be restored while conventional dentistry has believed this to not be possible.
wLG4E TIL John Wilkes Booth's (Lincoln's Assassin) plan was a simultaneous coordinated strike to kill the President, Vice President, & Secretary of State, causing succession chaos. Lincoln was killed, the Secretary of State severely injured, but the conspirator assigned to the Vice President chickened out
yQ4bv TIL about an experiment that mapped 1 cubic millimeter (about the size of a grain of sand) of mouse brain by slicing it into 25000 pieces and scanning them for 3 months. The completed data set had a size of almost 2 million gigabytes.
wLZOE TIL Blood donors in Sweden get a text message whenever their blood saves someone's life