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TIL Jason D. Padgett is an American artist with alleged acquired savant syndrome.On the night of September 13, 2002, Padgett was attacked and robbed by two men outside a local karaoke bar. This attack allegedly caused a change in his brain activity.

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4mRJ TIL skipping the microphone/menu and going straight to the first window at In-N-Out is referred to as a “Home Run”. Your reciept will mention the fact that you have scored a “Home Run”. I found this out first hand by mistake today.
gMO1b TIL Architects tried to raise $2.9 billion to build Minas Tirith, the city in "Lord of the Rings"
b9v4j TIL Arnold Schwarzenegger pays Warner Brothers $1 a year to keep his Mr. Freeze costume
V8RD TIL In 2014 in Thessaloniki, Greece on 2 separate occasions it was discovered that women had been buried alive, after people at the cemetery heard screams coming from inside the earth.
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