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TIL of a thing called Face Blindness that means you can’t recognize people’s faces even if you’ve known them for years

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JEej TIL that Noel Gallagher (of Oasis) put his mansion in Ibiza up for sale because of his neighbor, James Blunt (“You’re Beautiful”). He couldn’t stand the “thought of Blunt writing crap tunes up the road.”
P1QWO TIL that a 6 year-old girl used Amazon Alexa to order a $160 dollhouse and 4 lb of cookies. When a San Diego TV station broadcast a news report on the incident, the words "Alexa ordered me a dollhouse" caused Alexa devices around the city to try to order dollhouses.
Wkx94 TIL that the phrase ''Pushing The Envelope'' is not about the container for letters- but is related to a mathematical graph of aerodynamic performance on which the envelope is the boundary line representing an aircraft's capabilities.
WBnL TIL that North Korea hijacked a commercial aircraft, abducted the passengers and never returned 11 of them
Y715A TIL that the original Bambi novel was actually an allegory about antisemitism