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TIL: If your mask smells bad to you, you probably need to see a dentist. That's your own breath that you're smelling!

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v4YL TIL Bhanbhagta Gurung saved his pinned unit from a sniper with his rifle. Gurung didn’t wait for orders and rushed to the nearest foxhole taking out the enemies with grenades, his bayonet, and Kukri; Taking 5 enemy positions single handed, against light machine guns.
R7Zdj TIL that green is used as a backdrop for TV and electronic cinematography more than any other color because television weathermen tended to wear blue suits.
ArMn TIL there are giant clouds of alcohol floating in space. Near the constellation of Aquila, there’s a cloud 1000 times the diameter of our solar system with enough ethyl alcohol to fill 400 trillion trillion pints of beer. Every person would have to drink 300,000 pints each day for one billion years.
78Vw7 TIL: The feeling of loneliness is the mind's way to signal danger, and that you should get back to the group(where you are protected and can share food). A feeling formed at the beginning of civilization. Basically a "survival mechanism" like thirst and hunger.
e0jDk TIL Clay and earth are eaten in some nations; either for pleasure or to suppress hunger. One such clay is Kaolin, which is sold at most markets in Cameroon and is often flavored with spices such as black pepper and cardamom. Consumption is greatest among women, especially during pregnancy.