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TIL that a child was raised in isolation and abuse for 13 years, when she was found she had a mental age equivalent to a 13 month old baby.

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6946l TIL that a man didn't know that he got drafted by the NFL. The Philadelphia Eagles drafted Norm Michael of Syracuse University in 1944, but could not reach him as he had already enlisted in the US Army. Michael only learned what had happened in 1999, when reading about other Syracuse NFL players.
PWV TIL there is a spider that can live at elevations >20 000 ft. It relies on bugs being blown to those heights by the wind for food.
GlmQ TIL there are 12 U.S. cities with a population of 1.
dDMYB TIL that the labels on Angostura bitters bottles are intentionally annoying. The original brothers entered a competition and due to a miscommunication, wound up with wrong size labels. A friendly judge suggested the brothers make that label their signature. The advice stuck.
p8RON TIL about Congressman Charlie Wilson's revenge. When he was 13, his neighbor, Charles Hazard poisoned his dog by mixing glass into its food. Years later, when Hazard was running for office, Wilson drove 96 people to the polls, telling them how Hazard had killed his dog. Hazard lost by sixteen votes.