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TIL congenital blindness and schizophrenia do not co-occur.There is not a single case of congenitally blind diagnosed with schizophrenia

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7wlX TIL seven year old Erica Pratt was kidnapped around the same time fourteen year old Elizabeth Smart was abducted. Erica escaped her kidnappers by gnawing through the duct tape binding her wrists, smashing through the basement window, and walking home.
x6aRg Til that 1/4 of American’s food is picked by around 500,000 children, many working 10 hours a day.
dO8r TIL that according to legend, a female pope named Pope Joan reigned for a few years during the middle ages, disguised as a man. After she was caught, potential popes has to sit on a chair with a hole on the seat, and a cardinal would reach through it to check to make sure the new pope had testicles.
oB7A TIL Nicholas Cage once woke up in the middle of the night to find a naked man eating a Fudgesicle in front of his bed.
YYDB TIL Chris Scarver, the man who killed Jeffrey Dahmer in prison, believed Dahmer was unrepentant for his crimes and claimed Dahmer would taunt fellow inmates by shaping his prison food into severed limbs, drizzling packets of ketchup on them to simulate blood.