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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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orJ7 TIL Before 1912, the Komodo Dragon was once thought to be a mythical creature
OnL6 TIL John Grey, author of “Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus”, has his doctorate from a now defunct degree mill, and is divorced from his first wife, who is also a marriage counselor.
ANN54 TIL that most Native Americans died because of Eurasian Germs like Smallpox, not because of European military success in the New World
OERg TIL that 42-year-old Dmitry Agarkov, a Russian man, took a piece of spam mail for a pre-approved credit card, re-wrote the terms, sent it in, got it approved, and when the bank tried to renege on the deal, successfully sued for 700,000 USD.
nxM9 TIL in 1911 British Antarctic explorer George Murray Levick observed the sexual habits of an Adélie Penguin rookery. The habits included necrophilia, coercion and homosexuality. The report was deemed too indecent at the time and was only published in 2012.