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TIL bugs use their antennae to “ smell in stereo “
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TIL Disney's 1992 film Aladdin was originally to be set in Baghdad but the studio was forced to change it due to the outbreak of the Gulf War. They scrambled the letters in Baghdad to create the fictional city of Agrabah.
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TIL that Charles Dickens grew up during a ‘Little Ice Age’ and hence it snowed for each of his first 8 Christmases influencing his writing and hence today’s tradition of a 'White Christmas’.
neoeo
TIL that in the 17th century, lacking chemical tests (and knowledge of disease transmission), Italian physician and autopsy pioneer Antonio Valsalva sometimes tasted the fluids he encountered in cadavers in an effort to better characterize them. "Gangrenous pus does not taste good," he wrote.
LQp0r
TIL that there is such a thing as a two-story outhhouse
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TIL The Kansas State Marching Band did a formation that looked like a phallic object was entering the mouth of South Dakota’s mascot, resulting in a fine and a game suspension of Kansas State’s director of bands.