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TIL an autistic teenager that is unable to speak is able to communicate by typing, giving the world a new perspective on how autistic people think

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nepZB TIL The word carnival comes from the Latin caro “flesh, meat”.
oBJEE TIL in 1983 US Interior Department secretary James Watt banned the Beach Boys from playing at the National Mall, saying the concerts encouraged drug use and attracted the wrong element. He was forced to apologize after finding Ronald Reagan was a fan.
9w0JB TIL the hardest shot in bowling is not 7-10, it's the "Greek Church" (4-6-7-9-10)
d86Vd TIL of Dr Randy Lovelace II, a Lt. Col. in the US Army Air Corps who worked on oxygen systems for high altitude jumps. In 1943 he volunteered to test his mask and jumped from a B17 at 40,000ft. The force of that deceleration knocked him out. tore his gloves off and frostbit his hand but he survived.
gr58y TIL after the setbacks in the Korean War, US considered using nuclear weapons in North Korea and parts of China, intending to create a belt of radioactive fallout zones between China and North Korea. Enemy could not have marched across that for at least 60 years.