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TIL During a campaign to remove statues of Vladimir Lenin, Ukraine changed “Lenin Street” to “John Lennon Street”.

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5Y11n TIL smelling farts can help fight against Alzheimer's, diabetes and strokes.
JYr6k TIL that the wheelchair symbol, known as the International Symbol of Access, is used to denote areas where access has been improved. It does not necessarily mean wheelchair-accessible.
Ybvd TIL that some scientists believe we are in the middle of a mass extinction event (1 of 6 throughout the history of our planet) and that humans are primarily to blame.
W70o9 TIL Graduate student Jocelyn Bell Burnell and her supervisor, Antony Hewish, built a radio telescope to observe quasars in 1967. Their discovery won the 1974 Nobel Prize – for Hewish. 50 years later, Burnell was awarded $3 Million in the Special Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics
MeGB TIL that if a body of water is labeled a sea, then international traffic must be allowed through it; if it’s a lake, then there is no such requirement. This has caused disputes regarding the Caspian Sea, which is called a sea but is technically a lake