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TIL Andrea Bocelli has been blind since he was 12, when he was hit in the eye by a soccer ball which caused a brain hemorrhage. Doctors tried leeches as a last resort but unfortunately were unsuccessful.

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p0EQ TIL Charles Osborne had the hiccups non-stop for approximately 68 years, from 1922 to 1990. His hiccups first started in 1922 while weighing a hog for slaughter. He fell and busted a blood vessel in his brain resulting in him damaging a small part of the brain that inhibits the hiccup response
yQWyp TIL When Edison was 15 he sold newspapers to the railroads, & saved the Station Master’s 2 yr old son from getting hit by a train.The Station Master repaid Edison by training him as a telegraph operator. Edison was adept and sold a better process to W.Union giving him the $ needed to launch his lab.
VK7D TIL the largest living creature on earth is a 2,200 acre mushroom living in Oregon.
8eMVa TIL Why England didn't have cowboys. Large herds of cattle were once driven south from Scotland, by a drover and his dogs. These dogs were often left to find their own way home, moving hundreds of miles the length of England. Innkeepers who fed them on the way were repaid by the drover next summer.
NXMwJ TIL Jonathan Goldsmith, AKA The Most Interesting Man in the World from the Dos Equis commercials, has been an advocate for landmine victim support, has assisted the effort to prevent and cure cancer in dogs, save the Siberian Tiger, and end child sex trafficking in Cambodia.