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TIL that people who can't smell things are called ANOSMIC
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TIL the phrase “get your goat” originated in horse racing. Horses would get very nervous before a race, so a goat partner would be placed in their stall for the night to help calm them. Unscrupulous opponents would then steal the goat in an effort to upset the horse and make them lose.
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TIL Two privacy researchers from the University of Texas were able to unmask Netflix users’ political and sexual orientation by taking the “anonymized” movie ratings (released as part of Netflix Prize) and comparing them against non-anonymized movie ratings posted at IMDB.
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TIL that EVE Online, a huge space-themed MMO, had an online player battle so big that it lasted 21 hours, costing an theoretical real-world value of $330,000 in microtransactions, and had been the largest recorded player vs. player battle in history. It is known as the Bloodbath of B-R5RB.
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TIL Nelson Mandela was only removed from the US terror watchlist in 2008
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TIL when Germany invaded Western Europe many WWI monuments were damaged or destroyed. However Hitler assigned the SS to protect the Canadian Vimy Ridge memorial because it was a monument to peace and those lost. Not to an allied victory