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TIL that blind people can use echolocation to see

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5Vm9 TIL that a cartoonist confronted a burglar running through his house. He called the police and took pen to paper to produce a caricature of the burglar. The police immediately recognised the burglar from the drawing and he was soon apprehended.
gMnOX TIL despite Portuguese neutrality in WWII British ships were allowed to refuel in Portugal because of a treaty signed over 600 years ago - the Treaty of Windsor, which is the longest lasting alliance treaty in the world. The treaty has been invoked several times to save Portugal from invasion.
mxwXp TIL that in UK sign language, the sign for Scotland is bagpipes, which is a sound a deaf person wouldn't hear. I got this because I watched a briefing from 10 Downing Street.
yyml TIL an area with no prior history of earthquakes was rocked with more than 100 earthquakes after a single year of a fracking operation.
pX1G TIL microbiologist Raul Cano, successfully revived yeast that had been stuck in amber for 25 million years. He then co-founded a brewery that uses the same 45 million-year-old species of yeast to brew beer.