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TIL Psychopaths tend to have a poor sense of smell

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QZd TIL that Hunter S. Thompson’s suicide note was titled “Football Season Is Over”. He further wrote: “No More Games. No More Bombs. No More Walking. No More Fun. No More Swimming. 67. That is 17 years past 50. 17 more than I needed or wanted. Boring.”!
jNP9n TIL Thomas Jefferson was skeptical about extinction, and thought mastodons were probably lurking in the deep West.
Bgamb TIL that when a metaphor stops needing its imagery to be understood and becomes idiomatic ("footage", "fly off the handle", "blow off steam"), it is considered "dead".
Oore4 TIL in 1991 it was discovered that the heart has its "little brain" or "intrinsic cardiac nervous system." This "heart brain" is composed of approximately 40,000 neurons that are alike neurons in the brain, meaning that the heart has its own nervous system.
QdVk TIL Rolex is owned by a foundation which is registered as a charity and therefore pays no corporate tax