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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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x6PNw TIL that Diet Soda began with the 1949 launch of La Casera in Madrid, Spain, using cyclamate. In 1969, an experiment at UW-Madison found that a cyclamate combination caused bladder cancer in laboratory rats, and was accepted by consumers and doctors as a cause of cancer in humans.
nOy7 TIL in 2016 an Alabama man was sentenced to 40 years after murdering a man who had sexually abused his daughter. The abuser had previously served 27 months of a 5 year sentence.
b6prQ TIL that the makers of Donkey Kong Country wanted the Kongs to be voiced by actual gorillas and spent hours recording some at a zoo, only to realize that gorillas are actually very quiet. Finding themselves without sounds to work with, they had a programmer do gorilla impressions instead.
dAK TIL Charles Barkley, not MJ, Magic, or Bird, led The Dream Team in points per game, rebounds per game, and steals. Before the Olympics, the selection committee wasn’t even sure he should be on the team.
4nE5 TIL that the soviets trained dogs to serve as anti-tank bombers, but because they used soviet tanks to train the dogs, the dogs attacked Russian tanks instead of their German targets.