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TIL The human nose can smell at least 1 trillion (1,000,000,000,000) different smells.

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LkjlZ TIL that nearly 40% of Americans expressed a negative opinion of "Wisian-Americans"—a fictitious group—in a survey about social attitudes that was conducted by the General Social Survey, a project of the National Science Foundation.
e0eBn TIL: In a report from 2013, most of the funds raised by the NFL don't fund cancer research. In the end, after everybody has taken their cut, only 8.01% of money spent on pink NFL merchandise is actually going towards cancer research.
W7vN4 TIL Rihanna was discovered by American producer Evan Rogers in 2003, who saw the singer performing with a girl group while he was on holiday. “The minute Rihanna walked into the room, it was like the other two girls didn’t exist,” he said
YlkP TIL pirates wore gold earings so if they were ever washed up on sea,the earings would pay for their funeral.
vkvD TIL that Star Wars director George Lucas is a fan of Seth MacFarlane’s Family Guy, and that MacFarlane stated that LucasFilm was “extremely helpful when tha Family Guy crew wanted to parody their works.”