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TIL that after the experience of playing Lieutenant Dan in Forrest Gump, Gary Sinise established a charitable foundation to help disabled veterans and their families

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5VxR8 TIL not a single person who has been born blind has ever been diagnosed with Schizophrenia. Scientists believe there is a protective factor between congenital blindness and schizophrenia
GYkRj TIL The bias and slanted media coverage of the 2005 Michael Jackson molestation trial has been referred to as "One of the Most Shameful Episodes In Journalistic History". The media would extensively cover the seedy accusations but completely unreported witnesses crumbling under cross examination.
k5Dm TIL that J. R. R. Tolkien, in a letter to his son Christopher, referred to World War 2 as the “War of the Machines,” and remarked that machines would be “the only victor.” He was highly critical of the harsh tactics employed by either side during the conflict.
1vbO TIL that only around 5% of Buddha’s teachings have been translated to modern languages; a global non-profit group named 84,000 aims to translate all of Buddha’s teachings to modern languages in order to combat the possible loss of this cultural heritage
Oo8kX One night in 1987, a Canadian man named Kenneth Parks drove for 14 miles from his house to his in-laws. He then broke in and made his way upstairs, bludgeoning his mother-in-law with a crowbar that he’d gotten from the boot of his car before stabbing her repeatedly to death. He then proceeded to choke and stab his father-in-law, who miraculously survived. Parks then drove himself to the police station and turned himself in. It sounds like a fairly cut and dry murder case, but after going to trial, Kenneth Parks walked free. Thanks to a combination of a lack of motive, his consistent version of events, and data gathered from EEG readings, no charges were pressed against him because all evidence pointed to the unlikely and bewildering truth that Parks had been sleepwalking. It remains one of the most remarkable cases of homicidal sleepwalking in history.