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TIL there are people who can smell ants

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Z8jKp TIL There is a monument in central Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia celebrating the Beatles. It was built because in Mongolian communist times, local people would sit around listening to forbidden western music and discussing the values of freedom and democracy.
PwDV TIL: When Picasso was interrogated by an SS officer about his painting Guernica, “Did you do that?” Picasso replied, “No, you did.”
0wZJN TIL during the D-Day scene in Saving Private Ryan, the two surrendering "Germans," killed by American soldiers, were saying in Czech: "Please don't shoot me! I'm not German, I'm Czech, I didn't kill anyone!" The American soldiers jokingly translate it as "Look, I washed for supper!"
xnpw TIL That Alan Turing’s Work in Decrypting Encoded Enigma Messages Saved an Estimated 14 to 21 Million Lives During World War II
p8GRZ This photograph was taken with a simple 35 mm point-and-shoot camera in 1989 by the STS-29 crew aboard the space shuttle Discovery.