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TIL that 20%-40% of the population do not carry the gene that would allow them to smell cyanide.

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b9aY7 TIL that the School of the Americas has had more graduates become dictators than any other school in history
Yp4e7 TIL in 2014 Johnny Rotten of the Sex Pistols admitted to spending 10,000 euros on iPad games
gr0QL TIL that the heaviest UK coin made for circulation was the 1797 copper tuppence, coming in at a whopping 57 g, weighing as much as ten American quarters and more than 6.5 times heavier than the modern £1 coin. It was worth the same as two pennies.
4k4GN TIL Marino Faliero, the only Doge of Venice in history to have been executed for a coup attempt, was erased from all official documentation and had his portrait in the Doge’s Palace painted over with a black cloth.
woMLo TIL about Ukyo Katayama, a Japanese former F1 driver. In 1994, he had been diagnosed with cancer in his back, but kept it a secret from his team, not wanting anyone's sympathy to make excuses for him. He raced for 4 years with the tumor and announced his illness only after he retired from F1