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TIL of "Alice in Wonderland Syndrome" in which patients have visual hallucinations in which they see objects around them distorted in size and shape. Lewis Carroll is thought to have suffered from it while he wrote his novels.

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781BL TIL trepanation involved drilling holes into the skull. Contrary to popular belief, not all patients subjected to it died. Archaeologists have found many skulls with partially healed openings, suggesting that some survived the procedure.
0wkep TIL why lawyers say 'attorney at law'. It's to distinguish them from attornies in fact, which is when you give a relative the legal power to make decisions on your behalf. Attorney at law is a legally trained representative who acts for a party.
vl7r TIL Vin Diesel broke into a Theater in New York with his brother when he was 7 with the intent of vandalizing it. When they were caught, instead of calling the police, the theater’s artistic director offered them roles in an upcoming show, thus starting Diesel’s acting career.
NXQdM TIL that in 1992, the Giant Gold Mine in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories in Canada was victim to an explosion done by an angry miner in retaliation of co-workers crossing the picket line as the mine was on strike.
nB8d TIL Kenneth Dover, one of the 20th century’s top classical scholars, admitted in his autobiography to engineering the suicide of a colleague who bothered him