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TIL The term “idiot savant” was historically used to describe individuals with significant mental impairments but extraordinary skills in a specific area. Now considered offensive, it has been replaced by “savant syndrome” to focus on their exceptional abilities.

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epajJ TIL John von Neumann was the first to use the term "singularity" to refer to a hypothetical point in time at which technological growth becomes uncontrollable and irreversible, resulting in unforeseeable consequences for human civilization. Many academics dispute the plausability of a singularity.
oy7L TIL Organic foods advocate J.I. Rodale died on live TV minutes after bragging he’d live to be 100.
dxm7 TIL that NFL players are three to 4 times more likely to contract Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease and Lou Gehrig’s disease (ALS) then the average American
K7rE TIL 9 year old “Vietnam Girl” famously photographed after having all her clothes and more then a third of her skin completely burned off her body by a napalm bombing, somehow miraculously survived, then left Vietnam, and is now a Canadian Citizen working in Ontatio.
g4BW TIL a team at Nike created a pair of sneakers inspired by the ‘Heaven’s Gate’ UFO cult (who wore Nike Decades when they killed themselves). They never made it into stores.