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TIL Blind people don’t suffer from schizophrenia

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x6X15 TIL: A Yellow Fever Epidemic Killed One in Every Ten Philadelphians in 1793
jNBpj TIL the idiom, "I like the cut of your jib" was derived from a sailing reference in the 1700s of identifying friendly or hostile ships from the cut, or shape, of their jib sails.
eZQn TIL Wizard of Oz author L. Frank Baum wanted to ‘exterminate’ all Native Americans
GApY1 TIL that Héctor Castro, an Uruguayan footballer, won the 1930 World Cup with an amputated right forearm. He accidentally amputated his right forearm while using an electric saw aged 13.
y0aM TIL that having an abortion will get you automatically excommunicated from the Catholic church, but murdering someone wont (unless you murder the pope).