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TIL that Ronald Reagan, suffering from Alzheimers, would rake leaves for hours, not realizing that they were being constantly replenished by his Secret Service men

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R7XR1 TIL about Tim Cordes, a physician with blindness. He was the third blind medical student in the U.S in 1998. Despite his impressive resume, the University of Wisconsin's medical school was the only one to accept him. They accommodated him and his service dog,Vance, went with him to clinicals.
x6bJg TIL The space probe Juno was unable to make use of its Jovian Infrared Auroral Mapper (JIRAM) instrument during its first otherwise successful close flyby of Jupiter due to it being offline awaiting a software update.
m1GWE TIL That in the UK? You require a TV license to watch or stream any live content, barring PPV content. (Learned this after reading an article about the Tyson vs Paul fight)
awbdN TIL that 'virgin births' among animals are real, and the process is called parthenogenesis, a form of asexual reproduction.
Br6xx TIL that people on average know around 130 countries and that there are lots more to discover.