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TIL that there is a device called the Nasal Ranger that allows for the quantification of how smelly an odor is.

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xej1 TIL in the original game of Clue, Mr. Green was actually called Reverend Green. The name was changed because they felt Americans would be upset at the idea of a priest being a murderer.
wkXM TIL the German state forensic bureau showed that portions of the Anne Frank Diary were written with a ballpoint pen. Ballpoint pens were not available before 1951.
6lvl TIL that 23% of the crew aboard Christopher Columbus’ ship “Santa Maria” was named “Juan”.
Y7vKZ TIL Bahia incident, in which a Union warship captured a Confederate warship in Brazilian waters. As a result, Union Commander Napoleon Collins was court-martialed; his dismissal was never carried out because his actions were viewed as militarily helpful and popular in the North.
9Yrbp TIL that there were more ancient capitals of Russia (though the country had another name then) and that scientists don't know which of two cities, Staraya Ladoga or Velikiy Novgorod, was really the capital. But what's more interesting is that you can see what archeologists have dig out at the both!