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TIL no one born blind has ever developed schizophrenia

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nWK8W TIL that the Romans added the letter “Y” in the first century to pronounce Greek loanwords containing the letter upsilon, and originally made an “ew” sound. The Romans called the letter “Greek I,” which is still its name in some Romance languages.
awLmJ TIL when Adolf Hitler took power in the 1930s, he owed back taxes totaling 405,494 Reichsmarks (over USD $2 million today). He never paid.
XP5r TIL that many people experience the “broken escalator phenomenon”; when stepping on to an obviously broken escalator, these people step onto it inappropriately fast and experience dizziness and imbalance, despite knowing that the escalator is stationary.
J7m8 TIL London has a secret, 2nd underground rail network
MGV TIL when AOL launched AOL 4.0 in 1998, they used ALL of the world-wide CD production for several weeks. All of it.