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TIL: No on born blind has ever been diagnosed with Schizophrenia

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0dGXp TIL the first motion picture ever made was a self-portrait in 1865
v1Zmj TIL of the Japanese Economic Miracle whereby Japan's GDP went from $91 billion in 1965 to $1.065 trillion in 1980 & was the world's 2nd largest economy. This was achieved through "shūshin koyō" or the guarantee of employment in big corporations & highly unionized blue-collar jobs.
J1ZPk TIL in 2024, an Indonesian man was stabbed to death at a party after a heated argument about whether the chicken or the egg came first.
j65GR TIL that in 2006, a baby girl named Amillia Taylor was born prematurely at just 21 weeks and 6 days—well before the usual threshold of viability. She survived and grew up healthy, baffling medical experts.
R5ly4 TIL standard greetings likely evolved from handshaking to hierarchical bowing to handshaking, against which a French society was formed to abolish 'le shake-hands' as a vulgar English innovation