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nB0W TIL The English vocabulary makes it very difficult to describe smells - we can only describe odors by comparing the smell to other things
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wo0Go TIL that the animal with the least amount of neurons in their brain are Sponges with 0 neurons, and the animal with the most are Elephants with 257 billion neurons. Humans average at around 100 billion neurons.