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TIL people who grow up in cities are twice as likely to develop schizophrenia, even when controlling for drug use and ethnicity.

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E1BNd TIL that Dr. James Barry, a celebrated surgeon, was born Margaret Bulkley and adopted a male persona to become the UK’s first female doctor, carrying out the first successful caesarean delivery. She fooled the Army, high society & the whole British Empire. This secret was only revealed after death.
QnjM TIL The video for Gangnam Style has had over 2.3 billion views breaking the YouTube view counter and forcing them to update their site code.
NXGxE TIL: 21 year old P.T. Barnum became a bit of a liberal celebrity after publishing an article excoriating a local church dignitary for the crime of “taking usury of an orphan boy." Which landed Barnum in jail for more than two months.
XGlE TIL Women may be more likely than men to be bisexual, or be primarily attracted to men with some same-sex attraction, because same-sex behavior allowed women to raise their children with other women.
4kpGb TIL: St. Louis was the 4th largest city in 1910 (8th largest as recently as 1950, and now 70th), Buffalo was the 10th largest (now 78th). Cleveland was the 6th largest in 1940 (now 54th), Detroit was the 4th largest (7th largest as recently as 1990, and now 27th).