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TIL Hallucinatory 'voices' shaped by local culture. In the U.S.A., voices are harsh and threatening while those heard by schizophrenics in Africa and India tend to be more benign and playful.

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loEG5 TIL that the first SMS text message ever sent was on December 3, 1992. It was sent by a 22 year old test engineer from his computer to a phone. The message simply read "Merry Christmas".
X0G7k TIL that Quincy Jones was eligible for membership in the Sons of Confederacy Veterans.
lMa5 TIL armadillos can carry leprosy, and in rare cases can transmit it to humans
nk67 TIL Odds of being attacked by a candiru (penis invading fish) are “about the same as being struck by lightning while simultaneously being eaten by a shark.”
ne0W TIL there is a man in Australia who ages so slowly that by age 40, he is only at the developmental level of a 10 year old