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TIL Deaf-from-birth schizophrenics see disembodied hands signing to them rather than “hearing voices”

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b6Bv4 TIL that the Italian royal family was banished from the country in 1946 and were not allowed to return until 2002.
Ve9k TIL Wal-Mart has a crime problem; cost cutting and employee reductions drove a rise in crime that led one community to deem the retailer a public nuisance and another to task ‘Officer Walmart’ to the retailer for up to 10 hours a day. Target doesn’t have these issues; they invest in more security.
yVOoa TIL that one’s anus can be removed.
JY6Wk TIL that it was Hasbro, an American multinational toy company that coined the term “Action Figure”, to market their G.I. Joe toys to boys who would not play with “dolls”
nWJdG TIL that KFC commissioned this painting for a man who figured out that the KFC twitter account only follows 11 accounts… all of which are a combination of Herbs and Spices