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TIL There is an optical illusion that can detect schizophrenia

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wLBYW TIL that the Prince hit “Purple Rain” was actually recorded in front of an audience at a charity event and that guitarist Wendy Melvoin was only 19 at the time and playing the song live for the very first time.
dDaxB TIL Kim Il Sung had a personal physician tasked with a research center to help him live to at least age 100. He selected remedies from a list and he died at 82
m1V5E TIL that Limpets, the little conical sea snails found all over the world, develop "Homescars", their favorite places to sit on rocks, which is a little depression etched out of the surface of the solid rock from them frequenting that location.
dBdQ TIL The word unicorn is the in the king james bible 9 times
gMVJ9 TIL Genital Herpes (HSV2) dates back millions of years. Scientists found that early ancestors (Homo Erectus) most likely contracted it from another early hominin (Parathropus Boisei). Probably likely through scavenging ancestral chimp meat.