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TIL farts smell worse in the shower because our nose works better in high heat and humidity.

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5Mln TIL of the Rosenhan experiment: Sane people faked hearing voices to see if they would be accurately diagnosed. They weren’t. None of the subjects were identified as impostors by the hospital staff, though psychiatric patients seemed to be able to correctly identify them as impostors.
loDrA TIL there are portions of the oceans that are essentially deserts if you only look at the amount of rainfall they receive.
nvLP TIL Wikitravel specifically warns visitors to Kazakhstan not to mention Borat.
JLX4 TIL Bread become sweeter the longer you chew as your saliva starts to break down starch into sugars.
6EJG8 TIL of Nancy Hart, a heroine of the American revolutionary war celebrated for repeatedly outsmarting and killing loyalist soldiers in Georgia.She is best known for an incident where she singlehandedly incapacitated 6 Tory soldiers who walked into her home and demanded that she cook a turkey for them