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TIL that people who can't smell things are called ANOSMIC

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oBQOr TIL in 2009 a drunk broker traded 7 million barrels of oil, representing 69% of the total market, in two and a half hours. This drove oil prices up by $1.50/barrel world wide and cost his firm $10 million.
j678p TIL about Romanian Princess and socialite Marthe Bibesco. Marthe lived as a travel writer, political exile, and poet—with high-society affairs scattered all over the European map. A muse to kings and poets alike, she is considered Romania's most influential woman of the millennium. (1886 - 1973)
kJrL4 TIL "The Diary of Anne Frank" was pulled out of a rejection pile at Doubleday by editor Judith Jones. After reading it all day, she insisted to her boss that it must be published. He said, 'What? That book by that kid?'
y0ee TIL George Washington is considered by most historians to have been a bad public speaker.
WkB04 TIL about a group of thieves who stole left shoes from display cases in designer shoe showrooms in Sweden, only to steal the paired right shoes from display cases in the showrooms in Denmark, making huge profits.