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TIL: My inability to smell Freesias in genetic

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oRJ68 TIL that Ben & Jerry's had to apologise after inadvertently naming an ice cream flavour after a brutal paramilitary group.
GR4j TIL in 2005 PBS gave pictures of ‘Tank Man’ to students at Beijing University - where the Tiananmen Square activism started - and they were mystified. One said, “I don’t know; maybe it’s a parade or something,” and another said politely, “May I ask if this is a piece of your artwork?”
VMQpk TIL no peer-reviewed attempt to replicate the Stanford Prison Experiment have reproduced the results, leading to allegations of fraud.
nJKY TIL There is a jail vigilante named T-Bone who beats up jail rapists
LQvam TIL that the Vatican Church recognised the Capybara, technically a rodent, as a fish which led to it being eaten during the meat free Lent season.