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TIL that people born blind cannot become schizophrenic

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P1lOO TIL three of the richest counties in the US are Washington DC suburbs
QJZ8a TIL that Photorhabdus is a strain of bacteria that lives inside nematodes. It works in symbiosis to kill host insects that nematodes target within 48 hours then produce antibiotics to disinfect the carcass.
GoO5 TIL that not only has the wolverine been known to actively hunt moose (despite being outweighed 20:1) but that one account describes a wolverine killing a polar bear.
YQVW TIL a man robbed a bank by pretending to be a public health official and giving a fatal dose of cyanide to all 16 people in the bank under the pretense of a routine dysentery inoculation
11O7 TIL of Pheasent Island, which is jointly owned by France and Spain, for six months alternatingly.