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TIL - There is a girl that can say any word backwards or forwards. Her brain was trained as a child to visualize words differently than most.

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ZpWNB TIL that Daintree Rainforest in Australia is the World's Oldest Tropical Rainforest
wLZv6 TIL of the discovery of hundreds of fossilized Pterosaur eggs in the Gobi desert. The eggs belong to a previously known species of pterosaur that lived in China more than a hundred million years ago. One such fossil suggests a wingspan of 36 feet making it one of the largest animals ever to fly
e0egE TIL Stan Lee was planning on changing careers when he was assigned to come up with a new superhero team. Since he had nothing to lose, he experimented with stories he preferred. This resulted in co-creating Fantastic Four, Hulk, Iron Man, Spider-Man, X-Men, Thor, Doctor Strange, Daredevil, Avengers.
mxg5P TIL that Mickey Mouse in Steamboat Willie (1938) was one of the first sound cartoons. Mickey was voiced by Walt Disney himself.
a5lM TIL that the same Russian man that created the instrument called the theremin, also created a listening device in 1945 that hung embedded inside a wooden plaque in the US embassy for seven years. It was called “The Thing”