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TIL that the notion that congenitally blind people can’t develop schizophrenia is a myth. There have been multiple confirmed cases of people born blind who were later also diagnosed with schizophrenia.

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dnMB TIL Konami’s arcade games usually used 57300 as the default high score because 573 can be pronounced Ko-Na-Mi in Japanese.
kJOag TIL nearly the entire 1977-1978 University of Evansville basketball team died in a plane accident. The one team member not on the plane died in a car accident two weeks later.
e05nE TIL in Chinese/East Asian culture, the Tiger - not the Lion- is considered the King of all Animals. This is so because it is the biggest land-predator in East Asia, and- more importantly- the markings on its forehead resemble the Chinese character for King/Monarch: "王."
mxpXM TIL that during the Great Leap Forward, when Chinese sparrows were deemed a pest and tried to be exterminated, some of the sparrows found refuge at the Polish Embassy in Beijing. The Embassy refused to scare away the birds and was surrounded by people playing on drums causing the sparrows to die.
P1k5w TIL about the Ship of People Incident in which Norman Macleod of the Isle of Skye kidnapped young men and girls to ship them to America and sell them as indentured servants. When the people were discovered, Norman Macleod claimed that he was shipping off convicts, a practice which was legal.