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TIL Within 48 hours of quitting smoking, your senses of smell and taste begin to return to normal.

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Xnar TIL Saudi Arabia has used up all its groundwater and will need to import all its food. California is headed down the same path and so is China.
LkQjV TIL NYC Mayor Fiorello La Guardia banned pinball in the 1940s as gambling that emptied the "pockets of schoolchildren in the form of nickels and dimes given them as lunch money". All pinball machines were rounded up and smashed dramatically by the mayor, before being dumped into city rivers.
mxX8P TIL that a Man in Florida shot neighbour's cat because it "looked at him like he owned the place".
86y4 TIL Kim Jong Il once tried to solve North Korea’s food shortages by breeding giant rabbits. A German farmer sent them 12 giant rabbits to get started, but later learned all 12 were eaten at Kim Jong Il’s birthday party.
xV8ao TIL Our nose and our ears get bigger with age, but not because they are growing - because of gravity and the breakdown of collagen