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TIL 64% of Americans believe schizophrenia involves a split personality. A person with schizophrenia doesn't have two different personalities. Instead, he has false ideas/delusions or has lost touch with reality. Multiple personality disorder is unrelated.

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6EBDW TIL Christmas was banned by Parliament in 1644 and abolished in 1647. The army actively stopped people from celebrating Christmas. Oliver Cromwell and the Puritans thought Christmas festivities were sinful, wasteful, and had no biblical justification.
eap6 TIL that a circular geological structure 40km in diameter exists in the Sahara Desert, and is of disputed origin
X7n6 TIL James Earl Jones was only paid $7,000 for his work as Darth Vader. If he had taken points instead he would have made 10’s of millions of dollars.
Mlo7 TIL: The attack on Pearl Harbor was detected by radar in advance, but the readings were misinterpreted.
BrMky TIL that about seven in 10 wealthy families lose their fortune by the second generation and by the third generation, that number has jumped to 90 percent.