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TIL ‘Old-Person Smell’ was confirmed by scientists as real, along with distinct young- and middle-aged-person smells.

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jNlRE TIL A 2005 study from Rutgers University theorized that the pre-1492 native populations of the Americas are the descendants of only 70 individuals who crossed the land bridge between Asia and North America.
oR4ro TIL The Red Hook Society for the Apprehension and Detention of Horse Thieves, the oldest horse thief apprehension and detention society in the USA, has never apprehended or detained a single horse thief.
a8MZN TIL that during WW2 the US Army opened a hospital in Memphis, Tennessee on Shotwell Road. After a newspaper letter said that the name of the street was inappropriate for wounded soldiers, the street was renamed to Getwell Road.
OoDoR TIL 700,000 year old stone tools were found in the Philippines despite the fact that known humans didn't arrive until 600,000 years later. Researches aren't sure how humans got there or what early hominid could have even made them
81EV TIL Al Gore’s daughter wrote an episode of Futurama