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TIL: It’s impossible to develop schizophrenia if you are born blind, but if you become blind later in life your chances of developing schizophrenia are increased

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GYBe4 TIL before his murder, James Fannin made three requests: he asked for his personal possessions to be sent to his family, to be shot in his heart and not his face, and to be given a Christian burial. The Mexican soldiers took his belongings, shot him in the face, and burned Fannin's body.
d7ME TIL that Hyde from That 70’s Show, Francis from Malcolm In The Middle, and Tara from The Walking Dead are all siblings
86YG TIL that in the United States, more money is stolen by employers from employees each year than is stolen in robberies, burglaries, larcenies and auto thefts COMBINED. The most common victims of wage theft are low wage workers.
7r9eM TIL that there is 1400 tons of unexploded (and rapidly degrading) munitions 1.5 miles off the coast of Kent (UK). If it explodes, it would likely cause a bigger explosion than the one in Beirut.
6EB08 TIL that Sweden has the largest scale model of the solar system in the world. It is in the scale of 1:20 million and stretches 950 KM across the country.