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TIL Cats cannot taste sweetness.

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djXK TIL: U.S. Senator Jake Garn who flew aboard Space Shuttle Discovery as a payload specialist experienced such severe space sickness that a scale for space sickness was named after him, where “one Garn” is used to represent total incapacitation.
kObXW TIL that Armenian cucumber is not actually a cucumber. It's also known as "snake melon" in English, and is a muskmelon like cantaloupe. It's called "qithaa'" in Classical Arabic (mentioned in the Qu'ran re:the Promised Land), "Arab/Palestinian cucumber" in Hebrew, and "fakoos" in both languages.
EyZp TIL the Bank of England produces banknotes named “giant” and “titan”, worth £1m and £100m respectively, used exclusively within the banking system
P1Nwg TIL about "Nobel Disease", a tendency for some Nobel Prize winners to adopt unfounded, pseudoscientific beliefs, often outside their areas of expertise.
wLNYE TIL that Morocco was the first country to recognize the United States as an independent nation.