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TIL that your brain can still process information garnered through your eyes even if your visual cortex is damaged or doesn’t work at all. You can ‘see’ without seeing.

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b91mQ TIL roller coasters use three sets of wheels to keep the trains on the track. Running wheels which are on top of the rails, side friction wheels which are on the side of the rails, and up-stop wheels which are under the rails. This is why inversions and negative-g moments are possible.
X0o9P TIL a 1990s April Fools prank at Microsoft nearly got the pranksters fired when they printed up hundreds of fake product boxes and snuck them into software stores -- Microsoft Coffee
lo0Kr TIL that Ancient Greek sculptures have such small peckers because, at the time, they were consonant with male beauty. Having a large johnson, on the other hand, was normally associated with being a fool or a barbarian.
OGkZ4 TIL - Romania tops alcohol consumption per person 16.90 litres annually. This is significantly higher than the US, where it’s 9.97. Contrarily, countries like Afghanistan and Libya have the lowest consumption rates, at 0.01 and 0.03 litres.
BrK0D TIL that Sweetwater Sound, the largest online retailer of music equipment and pro audio gear in North America, was originally started as a recording studio that was built by one man in a Volkswagen Bus in 1979. That man, Chuck Surack, still owns the company 100% and works on-site daily.