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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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wNaE TIL Doritos were invented at Disneyland to help curb costs of leftover tortillas.
P1LYg TIL when the Congress passed the Lend-Lease Act, the bill was given the identifier "H.R. 1776."
4k6pX TIL Throughout the WWII there were many rivalries between Office of Strategic Services (precursor to the CIA) and other US Intel departments. The prevalence of Ivy League graduates and high society gave rise to the dismissive name for the OSS "Oh, So Social.”
4ZvR TIL Speedy Gonzales was banned by Cartoon Network for being an offensive stereotype, only to be returned after mass protest by the hispanic-american community.
ne9br TIL an estimated one in four cowboys in the 1870s and 1880s were black.