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TIL People with ADD/ADHD have the ability to hyperfocus their attention during tasks that interest them.

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9ErM TIL in 2014, an 8-year-old boy named Tyler Doohan, saved 6 members of his family from his burning house before finally succumbing to the fire himself while trying to save the last victim, his disabled grandfather.
QN4DE TIL the fastest growing sport in America is pickleball, a hybrid racketball sport.
69AEQ TIL after Hitler met Franco in 1940, he told Mussolini: "I prefer to have three or four of my own teeth pulled out than to speak to that man again!"
5VxwB TIL that silverfish and bristletails are the only insects that don't undergo metamorphosis.
Lk6vm TIL that during his Nobel Prize speech, Alexander Fleming warned about the potential for antibiotic resistance with improper use of Penicillin