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TIL about Anton Syndrome, in which some blind people insist they can see, even making up things they see though they are obviously blind

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rxgd TIL that Aldous Huxley, author of Brave New World, was at the forefront of the counterculture’s experimentation with psychedelics, which led to his 1954 work The Doors of Perception. Dying from cancer, he asked his wife on 22 November 1963 to inject him with 100 µg of LSD. He died later that day.
7rdLZ TIL: About the “Little Red Engine” zoetrope record that played a children’s song while showing a movie to kids at the same time. It was published in 1956.
KOJlw TIL President Lyndon Johnson established the White House Fellows program in 1964. White House Fellows spend a year working as full-time, paid special assistants to senior White House Staff, the Vice President and there can be as many as 1,000 applicants for the eleven to nineteen fellowships
nD4d TIL that YouTube had to update their view count from 32-bit to 64-bit solely because Gangnam Style had too many views.
NmG8 TIL that, during WWII, the Russians used a biplane on the Eastern Front that was so slow, German planes couldn’t target it without potentially stalling.