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TIL: The smell of rotting potatoes can kill you

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D1LAP TIL There was an Anti-Mask League, an organization formed to protest the requirement for people in San Francisco to wear masks during the 1918 influenza pandemic.
KYl9B TIL in 1847, Israel Josaphat used pigeons to bypass a gap in telegraph lines to get info from Paris to Berlin faster than the Mail Train. He would later change his name to Paul Reuter and found the eponymous news org
4XK8g TIL Mount Everest is only the world's tallest mountain as measured from sea level. But since the earth bulges at the equator, the mountain Chimborazo in Ecuador is the tallest mountain if you measure from the earth's core.
EMrW TIL people still hunt polar bears with spears, and the courts will enforce their right to do so.
gMRvb TIL a 1991 New York Supreme Court case found that “as a matter of law”, a house which had been sold was officially considered haunted. The owners had sold the house without disclosing they believed it to be haunted and had advertised it as such, lowering the property value.