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TIL "Old Person Smell" is actually a chemical called 2-nonenal

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x6rPD TIL triple murderer Melvin Chelcie Carr accidentally asphyxiated himself while gassing his three victims to death in 1977. His wife came home and found them all dead in the garage.
Eg4rX TIL Rock and Roll was originally a euphemism for sex
kJ4lm TIL that Window AC Units don’t bring in outside air but instead recycle indoor air and dump heat out their backs
e1RJ TIL that Vikings once seized Paris and held it at ransom until they received 2,570 kilograms of Silver and Gold
LkDZ9 TIL of Frank Willis, a security guard in 1972. While on duty he noticed tape on a basement door lock. Thinking a worker had left it there accidentally, he removed it. Willis later found tape again in the same place. He called the police, saying he believed there had been a break-in at Watergate.