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TIL deaf schizophrenics can have auditory hallucinations

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ADvng TIL Nigeria started a famine in 1968 that would kill 2-3 million people, prompting one of the largest humanitarian crises of all time. To which Nigeria responded "If the children must die first, then that is too bad, just too bad."
ne5Rb TIL of Igor Panarin who predicted the US would collapse in 2010 into 4 zones controlled by Canada, China, the EU and Mexico.
LkAbv Til before British colonization, Persian was the official language of northern India including dynasties such as the Delhi Sultanate and the Mughal empire
DjAe TIL that because of “Hollywood accounting,” Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix lost money, despite being in one of the highest grossing film franchises.
a8oM0 TIL that in 1997, an episode of the Pokémon anime caused seizures in hundreds of Japanese children due to a flashing red and blue strobe effect. The incident was so serious it led to the show being pulled from broadcast for four months and it being permanently banned.