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TIL a married father in France went to the hospital complaining of a 2 week history of mild leg weakness, only to find out he lived his whole life with 90% of his brain missing

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ADg7x Four-fifths of the UAE’s population are classed as ‘foreigners’.
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Z8ONR TIL that Dory from "Finding Nemo" is deemed one of the most neuropsychologically accurate movie portrayals of an amnesic syndrome and the considerable memory difficulties faced daily by people with it
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WkAJo TIL that Columbia was the female personification of the United States up until she was replaced by the Statue of Liberty