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TIL Rain Man (Kim Peek), was the only savant known to science who could read 2 pages of a book simultaneously – one with each eye.

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j79M TIL that in 1934, future president Gerald Ford threatened to quit his college football team unless his black teammate was allowed to play in a game against Georgia Tech
lo76a Catching "cooties"—it's not just fodder for playground politics. What if a single hair on your head, the oils on your fingertips, or one of the thousands of droplets of saliva you expel each time you cough had the potential to jeopardize a multibillion-dollar interplanetary mission?
5V99p TIL the first living thing to survive a cockpit seat ejection at supersonic speed was a bear.
b61j4 TIL that Michael Jackson's pet, Bubbles the Chimp, is still alive.
Xr08 TIL there is a video game for kids with cancer where you fight cancer cells inside your body. The game “significantly improved treatment adherence and indicators of cancer-related self-efficacy and knowledge in adolescents and young adults who were undergoing cancer therapy.”