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TIL that some deaf people with schizophrenia don’t experience the common symptom of hearing voices, but rather, they see visual hallucinations of disembodied hands or lips making words.

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6Ey97 TIL Gas actually expires sitting in your tank for too long. If your car is sitting for several months during quarantine without much use, the ethanol in your car's gasoline will start to attract water and corrode your cars fuel system. This can be alleviated by using a fuel stabilizer.
Lk7x9 Today I learned of Sir Anthony Hopkins. Apart from a talented actor, he is also a famed painter and composer. He also has snuck a peice of his work in the film The Two Popes.
KOX74 TIL that heavy metal band Black Sabbath started as a blues band called Earth, but changed their name after seeing the Boris Karloff horror film "Black Sabbath". They liked "that people paid money to be frightened".
npkr TIL The goliath tigerfish is said to be a bigger and deadlier version of the piranha. It has 32 teeth that are of similar size to those of a great white shark and has been known to attack humans and even crocodiles. It has only ever been caught by a handful of fishermen due to the danger it poses.
e5Eg TIL Shredded documents can be put back together easily using computer software. Once scanned, an automated program then assigns a unique ID to each piece, and analyzes a number of characteristics, including size, color, indentation, and font using a matching algorithm.