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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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RPoa TIL there’s an experimental township in India founded in 1968 called Auroville. Where citizens are from all over the world and there’s no money or religion.
M4Jm TIL That Dennis “Chip” Wilson named his company Lululemon because “Japanese peoples’ inability to pronounce the letter "L”, and the extra effort they would have to make to pronounce the name" and “It’s funny to watch them try and say it,”
epmAL TIL actor Henry Winkler did not actually know how to ride a motorcycle while starring on "Happy Days".
XEDR6 TIL that a man walked into a bar and was never seen again. He was not recorded to have left the bar according to security cameras.
4kN56 TIL of Nihamanchi, a beer made from cassava and consumed by Indigenous peoples throughout the Amazon region. Its process involves chewing the cassava tubers, spitting them out into large jars and letting it ferment with the saliva. Its taste is described as like a "alcoholic buttermilk".