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

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OoQb1 TIL that a man attempted to kill president Andrew Jackson, but both of his guns misfired and upon this the president himself took out the attacker with his cane.
jNYMv TIL: During an average lifetime of driving, we face about a one-in-three chance of being seriously injured or killed in a motor vehicle crash.
y7Mp TIL: When General Lee met with his adversary, Grant, to surrender at Appomattox CH. Lee insisted upon his soldiers rights to keep their horses if they had one. Grant agreed understanding that if a former soldier was to return to the farm he had left, he’d need a horse to put the next crop in with.
8a1VL TIL the underground quarries of Paris, which house the city’s catacombs, were once used as a mushroom farm, as they allowed better cultivation all year round. By 1880, up to 300 mushroom farmers produced more than 1000 tons each year.
r901 TIL That Rather Than Use CGI, Tim Burton Had 40 Squirrels Trained to Crack Nuts for Charlie & The Chocolate Factory