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TIL schizophrenia has been linked to maternal exposure to influenza

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Wn1o TIL Tom Hanks was not paid his actor’s fee for his role in the movie Forrest Gump. In lieu of a fee, Tom Hanks took percentage points which earned him about 40 million dollars.
makM TIL in the most extensive case of health care billing fraud in US Department of Justice history, in which 243 people were busted for fraudulent billing to the tune of $712M, one Doctor had billed for 205 hours in a single day.
R5JEl TIL one of the oldest forms of binary numbers and encoding were found in the Chinese work I Ching from the 9th century BC. 0 represented Yin and 1 represented Yang, and combinations of the two would be used to categorize all things, intended to allow diviners to use random numbers to tell the future
9Y9Pr TiL when asked at a press conference “If you were going to sell out to a commercial interest, which one would you choose?”, Bob Dylan answered “Ladies garments.” 40 years later, he appeared in his first ever commercial...a Victoria’s Secret ad.
GJg4 TIL that a woman in my suburb was charged with “assaulting a police officer” after she squirted her own breast milk on said officer.