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TIL A woman smelled Parkinson's Disease on 7 out of 12 people in a test to prove her ability. Though only 6 of the 12 people had Parkinson's, she actually smelled the disease on one person three months before he was diagnosed.

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kOvDB TIL Concerned about the number of cobras in Delhi, British colonial officials created a bounty, only to discover secret cobra farms created to collect the bounty. When the officials shut down the program the farms released their snakes, meaning they had far more cobras than before they started.
9wVKG TIL the tallest Iranian, Morteza Mehrzad, is a Two time Gold medal winning Sitting Volleyball Paralympian
MlkW TIL a 9000 member indigenous tribe in Guyana is fighting illegal logging of their land by filming the activity with a drone they built by watching DIY videos on YouTube and taking the footage to the Guyanese government.
p8POO TIL Cranberries aren't grown under water, instead the fields are flooded with 18 inches of water the night before, in order to harvest the cranberries easier.
GAoJG TIL, that in 1969 the Internet's first message was sent from UCLA to Stanford Research. It was intended to be "LOGIN" , due to a system crash, only "LO" was received at the other end.