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

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GYAO1 TIL there are no Starbucks in Italy
EgJ7 TIL that the composer of some of the most beautiful Renaissance madrigals was a mass murderer
Lk9Ep TIL that George Gershwin was in psychoanalytic therapy for several years for “aberrant” behavior, olfactory hallucinations, loss of coordination while eating, and severe headaches, and it wasn’t until he died that they figured out he had a brain tumor.
XEVED TIL that the main character (Milo Thatch) in the Disney animated film Atlantis: The Lost Empire was modeled on a man named Marc Okrand, who created the Atlantean language for the movie and is also the creator of the Klingon language from Star Trek.
4R5b TIL Popeye the Sailor owns a dog-like creature whose cells leaked through from the fourth dimension, combined with cells from ours, and transmutated into a creature capable of moving between dimensions and solving difficult problems. His name is Eugene the Jeep.