In 2002, Jason Padgett was brutally beaten outside a karaoke bar, resulting in a brain concussion and a severe case of PTSD.

But this may have actually been the best thing that happened to him because he now has Acquired Savant Syndrome - Savant syndrome is a condition in which a person demonstrates profound and remarkable knowledge after suffering a physical or psychological trauma. 

Savant skills are usually found in one or more of five major areas: art, musical abilities, calendar calculation, mathematics, and spatial skills and as many as 50 cases of sudden or acquired savant syndrome have been reported, thought likely many more go unreported.

But even so, the syndrome is extremely rare, and for someone to develop sudden mathematical skills, that's even rarer.

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Nomophobia is the fear of being without a mobile phone or not being able to use it, which causes anxiety or stress.

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Testicles make several million sperm per day — about 1,500 per second.

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Eating Lobster was considered a mark of poverty before the 20th Century.

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Cambodia has an unusual house that is built to withstand a flash flood.

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A place where you can hear the whisper of your interlocutor at a distance of more than 100 meters.
The semicircular dam on the Barossa Reservoir in Australia has earned the nickname "Whispering Wall" for its acoustic properties.

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The human brain has enough memory to hold three million hours of television. The brain's memory is 2.5 petabytes. You would have to leave the TV running continuously for more than 300 years to use up all that storage.

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One of the most infamous bank robbers in South Africa's history, Andre Stander was actually a police man who robbed banks on his lunch break and returned to the scene of crime as an investigation officer.

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British Army soldier, Craig Harrison, once held the record for the longest confirmed sniper kill in combat. The Corporal of Horse shot from a distance of 2,475 meters (1.5 miles), and the bullet took over six seconds to reach the target and dropped 120.95 m (396.8 ft).

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"Senate" is derived from the the Latin word Senex meaning "old man". Therefore, senate literally means "board of old men" and translates as "Council of Elders".

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In Costa Rica, a female crocodile has been found to have made herself pregnant in the first known "virgin birth". The crocodile had been kept in captivity in a zoo and had zero contact with males.

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In 1923, German banknotes became so worthless that people started using them as wallpaper.

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