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TIL that when people are blind from birth they don’t see black. They don’t see darkness, they just don’t see anything at all. They see less than darkness

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D1dXj TIL about Alexander Bogdanov, a Russian physician who experimented with blood transfusion to gain eternal youth. He died after injecting himself with blood from a student infected with malaria and tuberculosis, who also may have been the wrong blood type.
neBNY TIL that both New York, NY and Buffalo, NY were called New Amsterdam.
OGG4X TIL there is no actual factual backing for the rumor that Walt Disney was cryogenically frozen. In fact, it is extremely unlikely and records state he was cremated
l7X7K TIL Water lilies grow up from the bottom of the pond like normal plants.
a8W4b TIL about the Slave Narrative project that took place during the Great Depression. Created by the WPA, out-of-work writers were hired to collect the life stories of former slaves. 2,300 first-person accounts were recorded and archived.