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TIL in Asian languages such as Chinese, dyslexia is much less common, and involves different brain mechanism than dyslexia in western languages.

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d8rPQ TIL that in Disney's The Sword in Stone, Arthur was voiced by three actors, leading to noticeable changes in voice between scenes — and sometimes, within the same scene. "Two [of the voice actors] were brothers, and sound somewhat similar; the third was not, and sounds distinctly different."
oBOZR TIL of Operation Bloodstone, a CIA project to recruit former Nazis and collaborators to conduct "psychological warfare, subversion, sabotage, [...] assassination, target capture and rescue". Many hired agents were high ranking Nazis, some of which had committed crimes against humanity.
vPvex TIL that researchers studied Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo's motor skills to determine how they score goals so consistently
N71A8 TIL Burt Reynolds took revenge from National Enquirer who wrote crap about him for years by dumping a helicopter full of horse shit on their Florida HQ
ANDra TIL there is an earthquake zone in southern Missouri, and there was a magnitude 7.0 earthquake there in the early 1800s. The nature of the bedrock there means quakes can shake an area 20x bigger than quakes in California. There is a 1 in 10 probability of another in the next 50 years