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TIL a simple illusion can detect if you have schizophrenia

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jQYR TIL Alexander the Great’s father had 3000 POWs executed by “ritual drowning.”
gRJX TIL that a Pizza Hut manager during the Joplin tornado saved many lives by herding customers into a walk in freezer and bungee cording his arm to the freezer door before being sucked into the tornado and killed.
8dKK TIL America is the most Overworked Developed Nation in the World.
PdAL TIL that whilst left-handed and right-handed people have similar IQ scores, people who identify as ambidextrous have significantly lower levels - particularly in arithmetic, memory and reasoning. The exact reason for this is unknown.
Ld5V TIL that as a consequence of HIV/AIDS, life expectancy in Swaziland has fallen from 61 years in 2000 to 32 years in 2009.