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TIL Irish people originally had black hair. Red hair genes come from Vikings who settled in the 8th to 11th Centuries.

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yQJep TIL of Salvador Alvarenga, who was lost at sea for a world record 438 days after he and a friend were hit by a storm whilst fishing in 2012. He encountered a cargo ship during the ordeal that didn't save him, and was sued upon his return home by his friend's family for eating him to stay alive
OokA6 TIL About the Elan School in Maine that Used Brainwashing and Misleading Parents into Subjecting Tennagers to Years of Severe Mental and Physical Abuse
OGG5R TIL about The Confess Project, a non-profit which trains barbers to be mental health advocates for black men. Normalizing discussions of mental health within a community heavy on MH stigma.
Wkk89 TIL the Vatican City has the highest per capita wine consumption of any country in the world.
p8w88 TIL the voices schizophrenics hear are actually their own subvocal speech. This is why it's so common for schizophrenics to believe their minds are being read.