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TIL those with a genetic predisposition to paranoid schizophrenia can have symptoms of the disease induced through social and environmental stress

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ywPX TIL that “sentience” means “the ability to feel” and does not mean “self aware”. “Sapience” is the ability to have complex thought. Therefore, it is probably true that all animals with a brain are sentient.
69dKm TIL that women hold 14 of the longest 23 neutral endurance records in marathon swimming
YEE7 TIL some of the profits made from Pink Floyd’s The Dark Side of the Moon were invested in the production of Monty Python and the Holy Grail
DydP TIL that in the early days of typewriters, Mark Twain stopped using one for letters because of the number of questions he would receive about the machine in response to said letter.
4XDVg TIL Ghana is considered ‘Africa for beginners’, while its neighbour Nigeria is ‘Africa for the very experienced’, due to its reputation as one of the world’s most difficult places to travel in. Away from the expat suburbs of Lagos, Westerners are a rare sight