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What's your favorite unbelievable fact?
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That sounds like the story in the Oliver Sacks book, The Man Who Mistook His Wife For a Hat. There was also a story in there about a man who taught himself to see just fine, even though his eyes didn't work at all. His brain just made educated guesses.