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TIL Blind people don’t suffer from schizophrenia

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WN6o TIL that Virtual reality therapy, where a patient is carefully re-exposed to traumatic events without facing any real danger, is an effective PTSD treatment.
x6aZ0 TIL the disco ball was patented over a hundred years ago -- there's even one in a flashback scene in the film Casablanca (which is from 1942)
R7wlQ TIL Nigeria still has 160,000 annual deaths due to AIDS, while in Swaziland more than 1 in 4 adults has it.
V6AG TIL - A simple measurement of the sweat gland activity of a depressed person can determine if he or she is suicidal – with 97 per cent accuracy.
6EPLZ TIL the town of Valmeyer, Illinois was so prone to flooding, that after a flood in 1993 the community decided to move the whole town two miles away onto a bluff to prevent further flooding.