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TIL : a man from colombia was diagnosed with tapeworm cancer

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7rwlP TIL about a condition called Akinetopsia (motion blindness), where a person cannot see moving objects; thus they see things move in "stop-motion," or like a buffering video.
JYoEk TIL while between 2012 and 2019 the US Mazda CX-5 sales more than tripled - from ~43k to over 154k - the Japanese sales actually decreased by about 4,000 units.
wLlRJ TIL Howard Foote Jr's took an A-4 Skyhawk for a joyride, his safety attributed to experience, skill, and ~100 hours on a flight simulator. Charges brought against him included hazarding a vessel. After 4.5 months in the brig, he got off with just time served and an other-than-honorable discharge.
PYExn TIL that Annie Oakley was such a great shooter that she could repeatedly split a playing card, edge-on, and put several more holes in it before it could touch the ground, while using a .22 caliber rifle, at 90 feet.
Bg1Ar TIL that in 2004, Reason Magazine sent out 40,000 print magazines to their subscribers with each one of the covers displaying a satellite photo of the subscriber’s house. The feature article was about how databases can be utilized on a mass scale with automation.