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TIL smell hallucinations are called phantosmia, and can be caused by infections, neurological damage, or epilepsy

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G9eQ TIL The transliteration of the name “Jesus” from Hebrew to English is “Joshua”. “Jesus” is the English derivative of Jesus’ Greek name. Mary would have called her son “Joshua”.
WErd TIL that Donald Trump paid off a man’s mortgage after he helped change flat tires in Trump’s stranded Limo.
OGMZR TIL the Pinkerton Detective Agency never went out of business and is still in operation today, now, as a division of Securitas.
Kw5E TIL the “Man in the Iron Mask” story describes an actual prisoner, held for 34 years (until his death) and never seen without a velvet mask on. His identity and the reason for his anonymity remain a mystery to this day.
M7peA TIL the Mbabram (a formally isolated and now extinct Australian Aboriginal language) used the word “dog” to mean “dog”. The word evolved completely independently of the English one out of pure coincidence and the two are in no way related.