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TIL schizophrenia has been linked to maternal exposure to influenza

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nQaB TIL that the external fuel tank on the space shuttles were originally painted white, but it turned out this added 600 lbs of paint to the shuttle so it was kept the normal orange color
781Yx TIL Bertha Benz becoming the first person to drive an automobile a significant distance. On 5 August 1888
4kpjb Today I learned that 37 years ago this month, Geraldo Rivera blasted open “Al Capone’s Vaults” live on television and discovered… nothing.
DA9r TIL a Harvard/Google study found the English language to contain 1,022,000 words
kJ5e4 TIL LazyTown was the priciest kids' TV series ever made. Originating from Iceland, each episode came with a hefty price tag of about $1 million, quite a sum considering it was primarily puppet-based.