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TIL that people born blind cannot become schizophrenic

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mxGQv TIL that eyebrow transplants exist
dDNkd TIL that in 1940, Imperial Japan built a monument out of stones from conquered territories, with text declaring their divine right to expansion. After the war, the monument was renamed the "Tower of Peace" and the imperial slogan was ordered removed, but the text was carved in again 20 years later.
8rkb TIL the targeted phishing of corporate executives is known as “Whaling”
joPa TIL that when a Soviet anthropologist exhumed Timurlane, he found a transcription that read “Who ever opens my tomb, shall unleash an invader more terrible than I.” The exhumation occurred on the same day that Germany invaded the USSR.
nn77 TIL that Alec Guinness, the actor who played Obi-wan Kenobi, despised star wars calling it “fairy tale rubbish.” Regardless, he was one of the few cast members who believed the film would be a hit and negotiated a deal for 2% of the gross royalties paid to George Lucas. This made him a very rich man