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TIL there's a spinning, floating island in Argentina

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M74YV TIL about Blindsight, blindness caused by damage to the brain's occipital cortex. People with blindsight cannot consciously see, but they still have a sense of depth and motion, can develop reflexes, "sense" when something is in front of them, etc.
0d0MM TIL the baku, a mythical Japanese creature that eats nightmares. In the Meiji period, children would say, "Baku-san, come eat my dream" three times to get rid of bad dreams. But if the baku remained hungry after eating, it might also devour their hopes and desires, leaving them with an empty life.
yQ05w TIL Michael Jackson probably wrote the music for Sonic 3 on Sega (although uncredited)
JYMXB TIL During Hurricane Harvey, the National Weather Service had to add two new colors to the rain accumulation map as the old color key topped out at an amount of rain they never before thought would fall.
1eMO TIL Human babies are 80% water at birth, a slightly higher water content than bananas and slightly less than fresh potatoes.