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TIL Schizophrenics can tickle themselves

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wLRrE TIL Dave Thomas, the founder of Wendy's, was adopted when he was just 6 weeks old. His adoptive mother died when he was 5, and he was abused by his adoptive father. Hoping he could find better matches for other children in the future, he founded the Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption in 1992.
bnjj TIL The Empire of Japan had proposed a “Racial Equality” bill in the Paris Peace Conference in 1919, but was rejected by other countries.
pYOGb TIL that the original text to Little Richards Tutti Frutti (song) was about anl-sx.
NEW8 TIL that Yale University is named after Elihu Yale, “the most overrated philanthropist in history,” instead of main philanthropist Jeremiah Dummer, because Dummer College would have been a bad name.
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