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TIL Blindfolded people often can’t tell the difference between the smell of Parmesan and vomit.

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jbQn TIL A New York sociologist observed that women are a good indicator of good public places because they are more sensitive to annoyances. “If a plaza has a markedly low proportion of women, something is wrong…if it has a high proportion, the plaza is probably a good and well-managed one”
GYP8J TIL Casey Kasem declined to reprise his role as Shaggy in "Scooby Doo on Zombie Island" because he had recently gone vegan and wanted that reflected in the character, which was not upheld. This resulted in Billy West's one and only credit for portraying Shaggy.
Y44A TIL of the Ittan-Momen: a “roll of cotton” that, in Japanese folklore, becomes alive and self-aware once reaching 100 years old. It “flies through the air at night” and “attacks humans, often by wrapping around their faces to smother them.”
k0g1 TIL that in 2005, the DEA reported seizing $477 million worth of drugs, whereas the estimated value of drugs sold within and into the US is $64 billion dollars. This makes the efficiency rate of the DEA less than 1% at curtailing US drug trade.
ne5DG TIL in the 2000 paralympics, the Spanish team in basketball-ID consisted of fully functional semi-pros. They won gold by a landslide but where discovered because one of the players was an undercover journalist investigating fraud comitted by the president of the Spanish Disabled Sports Federation.