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TIL Psychopaths tend to have a poor sense of smell

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9wkDr TIL: The top (summit) of Mt Everest is grey limestone, complete with embedded marine invertebrate fossils (e.g. trilobites). This means that the rock that makes up the top Mt Everest was once underwater.
neYl9 TIL that there really is a Schraderbrau Beer - the beer Hank Schrader brewed in the TV series Breaking Bad. Actor Dean Norris helped launch it in 2019.
d8k9Q TIL in 1746, a Swedish king tried to prove coffee was unhealthy by having one man drink large amounts of coffee and his identical twin drink the same amount of tea everyday for the rest of their lives. Both twins outlived the doctors in charge of the experiment and the king himself.
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