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TIL In the 1970s the police discovered a couple who had kept their daughter imprisoned inside a locked room for 13 years. With no contact with the outside world, little stimulation, and very limited communication with her parents her brain wasn't capable of learning any language.

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R5pR7 TIL Takashi Yanase (Anpanman creator) was a soldier during the Japanese occupation of China in World War II and lost his brother in the Pacific Theater. After the war, he became a children's book author and anti-war activist with "Chirin no Suzu" being an allegory for WWII.
m14ky TIL that there is an island off the coast of Long Island, New York that has been been privately owned by the same family for 400 years
O961 TIL using hand sanitizer kills off all your good bacteria and increases your body’s absorption of BPA (main chemical in almost all hard plastics)
eRa5 TIL Muhammad Ali called Michael J. Fox after his Parkinson’s diagnosis and said, “Now that you’re in the fight, we’ll win.”
QX8k TIL the human heart can be replaced with two turbines, causing a constant flow of blood rather than a pulse.