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TIL not a single person who has been born blind has ever been diagnosed with Schizophrenia. Scientists believe there is a protective factor between congenital blindness and schizophrenia

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wLYjJ TIL of Jeremiah Hamilton, 19th Century New York's notorious African-American, Wall Street millionaire. Blacklisted by the city's insurance firms and Public Stock Exchange, he went on to amass a fortune of $250 million in today's money and was known as the biggest single rival to the Vanderbilts.
4kNmR TIL that the largest living organism on Earth is not a blue whale or an elephant, but actually a fungus. Covering over 2,200 acres in Oregon, the Armillaria ostoyae fungus, also known as the Humongous Fungus, is estimated to be between 2,400 and 8,650 years old and weighs over 6,000 tons.
OR71 TIL over 300 incidents of child murder occurred in 1700s Germany and Austria due to incidents of “suicide by proxy”. Religious people were killing young children in order to have the government execute them so they could get into heaven.
XE47P TIL the name Scotch Tape comes from a racial stereotype that Scottish people are cheap. When a painter was testing the product, he complained that the makers were “Scotch” with the amount adhesive on the tape.
OoVD1 TIL the act of attributing causal relationship between unrelated actions and events is called "Magical thinking", for example "If I don't brush my teeth today my dog will die", and is considered a form of OCD.