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TIL that schizophrenia can be diagnosed with 98.3% accuracy using a simple eye test that tracks eye movement abnormalities

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D1YKr TIL Allison Janney was so convincing as White House press secretary in The West Wing that she has been offered work as a political pundit many times and turned them down, reminding them that she is an actor and not strong on politics.
M4N8 TIL that pain serves an evolutionary purpose for higher organisms to “learn from their mistakes.” Insects may not feel the same pain as we do because of their short lifespans.
Z8lmv TIL it is said that René Descartes René constructed an automaton in his daughter's likeness after she died of scarlet fever; only to have the robot Francine smashed and thrown overboard as a work of Satan during a voyage at sea.
8evZL TIL Braun introduced a butane powered curling iron in 1982
W76AN TIL there's a Bob's Big Boy statue in the middle of a field near Cody, Wyoming