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TIL Nirvana's song "Scentless Apprentice" is about Kurt Cobain's favorite novel, "Perfume" by Patrick Suskind.

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D15ar TIL That the Vatican actually has a national football team. Vatican's national football team has played against 7 international football teams, which they have either lost or tied with the other team. The team consists only by Swiss guards and museum guards.
8eGa4 TIL in October 2004, it was reported that the Horniman Museum in London was failing to receive some of its email because filters mistakenly treated its name as a version of the words "horny man".
5YNL8 TIL Islam has an ancient and allowable form of contraceptive called 'azl. In English it means to pull out before ejaculation.
Egknw TIL that there are three summers. Today marks the start Astronomical Summer (from summer solstice to autumnal equinox). There is also Meteorological Summer (June, July and August) and Solar Summer (the solstice is the mid point so summer started 45 days ago).
e0yon TIL that Palm oil producers are wiping out orangutans – despite multinationals’ promises