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TIL Michelle Philpots suffered traumatic brain injuries after two motor vehicle accidents in 1985 & 1990. In 1994, epilepsy developed & led to anterograde amnesia. Each day, she wakes up believing it's still '94 & her husband has to convince her of their 1997 marriage using a photo album as proof.

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6EXW8 TIL that an over reliance on GPS technology can lead to an atrophy of the hippocampus because that part of the brain is no longer being used.
yQ08V TIL that some species of penguin were taller than humans.
yQGJv TIL that wild horses no longer exist. Only feral.
4XA7w TIL transgender/LGBT rights in Thailand are extremely advanced. Due to Thailand being 94% buddhist, which believes that you only occupy a body in this life, so your spirit is different. So if you're born a man but feel a woman, there's more societal acceptance that the body is wrong not the mind.
Oxl4 TIL Ten days after the Chernobyl disaster, further risk of massive thermal explosion was identified, then three men known as “The Chernobyl divers” volunteered to swim through pooled water under leaked reactor to find and release the safety valves. They died few days later due to radiation exposure