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TIL Aphantasia is a condition affecting 1 to 3% of people. Its mind or imagination blindness. People with Aphantasia cannot visualize anything in the minds.

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0dG9j TIL that Hitler only became a German citizen in 1932, only a year before he took power
PYG0G TIL there is a collection agency that specializes in collecting library late fees, and have collected over $1 billion in fines on behalf of 2,000 libraries
D1DmY TIL about William Martin, Mayor of the Royal Marines, who actually never was. It was a successful attempt of the British to spread rumours to Hitler and make him send his troops to defend a 'planned' invasion in Greece. Thus the actual Allied invasion of Sicily 1943 resulted in less casualties.
MebZA TIL cashews are in the same family as poison ivy and they cannot be sold in their shells because they can cause a similar itchy skin reaction due to a chemical called urushiol
neLdo TIL that when Walt Whitman's collection of poetry 'Leaves of Grass' was published in 1855 it was met with so much ridicule that one critic went as far as to request Whitman commit suicide.