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TIL a simple illusion can detect if you have schizophrenia

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b6XY7 TIL Scottish/Canadian man Angus MacAskill is thought to be the tallest "true" giant (not abnormal height due to a pathological condition) in history. He stood 7'9" tall, had an 80" chest (also a record) 44" shoulders and weighed 510lbs.
WKy9 TIL that there are about two million saunas in Finland, enough for the entire finnish population to take a sauna at the same time
kOoWB TIL that it's estimated there are more stars in the universe than there are grains of sand on earth, but there are more atoms in one grain of sand than there are stars in the universe... and I just can't wrap my head around that.
B9ny TIL that female ejaculation, aka squirting, is actually just an involuntary release of urine
jEmp TIL that Quincy Jones composed the music for the Fresh Prince of Bel-Air intro