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TIL 20% of people can’t smell semen.

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VMxEB TIL The organizers of the 2022 World Games excluded the Haudenosaunee Confederacy (Iroquois) team because it wasn't a "sovereign nation." The Ireland team has bowed out to allow the game's inventors, who are also ranked 3rd worldwide, to play.
1Xe7 TIL that a wedding ring is placed on the left ring finger because in ancient times, people used to believe that this was the only finger where a vein connected straight to the wearer’s heart. This vein was named ‘vena amoris’, the vein of love.
M68 TIL that old calendars can be reused.
VMQjB TIL that the Dragon’s Breath, the world’s second hottest pepper, was developed for its essential oil having potential as a skin anaesthetic, and later cultivated by a breeder who had not planned to breed the chili for record heat, but rather was trying to grow an attractive pepper plant.
D1ONv TIL that, despite being one of the oldest national teams (played first game in 1870), England national football team didn't have a manager until 1946, and until then the "Selection Committee" was in charge of player selection, tactics and substitutes