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TIL of “The Case of the Stolen Smell” in which an innkeeper accused a poor student of stealing the fumes of his cooking by eating when the innkeeper was cooking to flavour his dull food. The judge ordered the student to pay the innkeeper with the sound of money by passing it from one hand to another

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