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TIL that people with aphantasia cannot visualize or picture memories

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78DeO TIL Al Copeland, the founder of Popeyes, in the early 1960s spend 10 years in the doughnut business before creating his first restaurant that sells chicken.
5WR9 TIL That Steve Irwin was offered a state funeral following his death, however his dad rejected the government’s offer citing that Steve would have wanted to have been remembered as “an ordinary bloke”.
4XEQb TIL that after surviving a car accident and receiving a settlement, Paul Dennis Reid used the money to get a plastic surgery, and then pursued a career as a country singer, under the stage name Justin Parks. When that failed, he became a serial killer.
OGBR6 TIL The United States of America has 1.4 Billion Pounds of Cheese Stored in Caves for Poor Economic Periods
MWm0 TIL in WWII the Japanese decrypted a British message to London complaining about the weak state of “Fortress Singapore”, a key British base. It was so frank in its admission of weakness that they suspected it was a plant, believing no officer would be so open in admitting weakness to his superiors.