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TIL 2% of people have a defective ABCC11 gene, aka their sweat doesn't smell

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PGyV TIL that in 2011 a 75 year old Georgian woman cut off internet access to the whole of Armenia when she severed a single cable while digging with a shovel
7dex TIL there’s an annual festival for goths at Disneyland. It’s called “Bats Day at the Fun Park.”
epKQ6 TIL that in 1959, Claude Shannon, a mathematician from MIT demonstrated that machines can learn by experience using a mechanical mouse that can remember the previous paths that led to an artificial cheese in a maze.
PG4O TIL Henry Johnson, the “Black Death”, was awarded the Purple Heart in 1996, Distinguished Service Cross in 2002, and the Medal of Honor in 2015. He died penniless in 1929 after his wife and children left because he couldn’t work due to his injuries.
GYX1G TIL It is illegal to hunt a Bigfoot in Washington state, Oregon and California. It is still legal to hunt them in the state of Texas though.