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TIL Louis Braille invented the braille system between ages 12-15 after having been blind 7 years due to an accidental self-inflicted injury at age 5 that resulted in his own blindness

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NXJKb TIL bird feathers are actually modified reptilian scales
v1ne8 TIL Gabriele Falloppio, an Italian Catholic priest and anatomist born in 1562, was the first to describe a condom and advocate its use to prevent syphilis. In an early example of a clinical trial, Falloppio reported that from a sample of 1,100 condom users, none of them contracted syphilis
PYn7w TIL: There's a dude who plays classical piano for elephants.
9YlKQ TIL that the traditional "Last Meal" for those sentenced to death begun as a way to bribe their ghost not to haunt the executioners.
neKgW TIL that Linus Pauling, the extremely smart scientist who claimed Vitamin C would treat the common cold, prolong your life, and cure cancer, died in 1994 due to prostate cancer, a disease that he said vitamins would cure.