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TIL that aphasia can be experienced by those who communicate using sign language.

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7ryZr TIL that French organist and composer Louis Vierne died at the organ of Notre-Dame while giving a concert. Curiously enough, it was fulfilling his life-long dream.
ANL4o TIL that ice skating in England dates back to at least the 12th century, when people used bone skates to get around the fens in winter.
KYVdE TIL that in 2013, Katy Perry, when asked what was in her purse by a fan while promoting a new album, said that it used to have locks of hair from Taylor Swift and Lady Gaga in it, that she got while sharing a dressing room at the Grammys with them. She also put little bows on each lock of hair.
4kX85 TIL Pavlov's dog experiment was widely misunderstood because of mistranslation and misconstruction. Pavlov never used a bell to condition dogs to salivate, because a bell was an imprecise control. Instead he used tones, duration of tones and electric shock to study physiological reflexes.
OG4Z6 TIL about the Krukenberg operation, is a surgical technique that converts a forearm stump into a pincer. It was first described in 1917 by the German army surgeon Hermann Krukenberg. It remains in use today for certain special cases but is considered controversial and some surgeons refuse to p