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TIL sharks are called "swimming noses" because 2/3 of their brains are olfactory lobes. They can smell blood in water at 1 part per million from hundreds of meters away. But their sense of taste isn't linked to their nose and is not as developed, so often they bite once then decide not to kill.

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7vm7 TIL India is building a fence around Bangladesh
jNo4M TIL that during the Great Depression of the 1930s, women turned their flour sacks into into dresses, underwear, towels, curtains, quilts, and other household necessities. So flour companies started packing their flour in bags with pretty patterns.
gBMD TIL in 1987, a 43 year-old man took a teenage girl out into the Californian woods to search for Bigfoot. He came back without her, saying a Bigfoot had abducted her. The man never was convicted, went free, and the girl is still missing to this day.
4kn0w TIL in 1876 a Mexican general named Porfirio Diaz overthrew Mexico's President for seeking a second term under the principle "no re-elections" before ruling the country until 1911
dZAB TIL: Ryan Holle - Sentenced to life in prison for loaning his car to a friend who he thought was getting them fast food. Let’s help him become a free man again!