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TIL that the world's largest Singer Sewing Machine factory in yhe world was in Clydebank Scotland

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awVNy TIL that in the original story Pinocchio squished the cricket to shut it up. It continued nagging him as a ghost.
ANQPd TIL: My inability to smell Freesias in genetic
KYgwB TIL Endorphins (the "Feel good" chemical in human brains) work by blocking the nerve cells that receive the pain signals
kkYd TIL that a Nixon White House official who was jailed for directing the Watergate burglary team is now a scholar on ethics in government.
awKW0 TIL of Raffaele Bendandi, an Italian clockmaker who could predict earthquakes, such as the 1915 Avezzano earthquake which killed 30,000, using a self taught method that wasn't backed by science. Mussolini made Bendandi a Knight but banned his public predictions in 1928 because it harmed tourism.