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TIL of a blind American man who taught himself to navigate using echolocation. His hobbies include hiking and mountain-biking, and he has now trained over 500 students in his ‘tongue-click’ technique.

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vov7 TIL in 1998, Wu Tang Clan member Ol’ Dirty Bastard witnessed a car crash from the window of his Brooklyn recording studio. He and a friend coordinated onlookers and lifted one of the cars to rescue a four year old girl, whom ODB visited in hospital under a fake name
0PaL TIL Police SWAT sniper Mike Plumb managed to shoot a revolver out of a suicidal person’s hand.
5GGk TIL: The first woman was accepted to medical school by accident. The issue was up to vote by the male students, with the stipulation that if one student objected, she would be rejected. They thought it was so ludicrous that they believed it to be a joke, and voted unanimously to accept her.
ZkWQ TIL: If you’re 18-43, healthy and can stick a cotton swab in your mouth, you can join the National Bone Marrow Registry for free, and maybe, save a life.
KOxpa TIL that in 1963, inspired by Martin Luther King Jr.'s nonviolence, organizers led a successful Bristol Bus Boycott to end the state-owned Bristol Omnibus Company's then-legal policy of hiring only whites.