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TIL Schizophrenics who are born deaf will hallucinate disembodied hands signing to them, rather than hearing voices.

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0wXA5 TIL about a set of twins that reunited after 37 years in 1979. Both were named Jim by their adoptive parents, loved carpentry and math, and pursued careers in security. Even stranger, they had each married a woman named Linda and then remarried a woman named Betty.
4QrN TIL that a murderer named William Chester Minor made enormous contributions to the writing of the Oxford English Dictionary while he was in a mental asylum.
4XKK5 TIL 2,000 year old seeds were discovered inside an ancient jar in Israel 1963. They were planted in 2005 and a tree extinct for 1,800 years sprouted from the ground.
LkXOp TIL Verizon's "unlimited plan" throttles data speed and streaming quality unless you pay for "Premium LTE"
6ErbJ TIL the sun has a gravitational acceleration of 275 m/s². If one were able to walk on the sun they'd feel a force of 28 g (28 times the gravitational force on earth)