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TIL showers were invented as a deliberately unpleasant treatment to cure the insane

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XEDAD TIL that people diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease may lose the ability to smell peanut butter. The “Peanut Butter Test” may offer an early indication of the disease.
9YRPp TIL Goofy actually is a dog, not a cow
pmdN TIL that in late 2007, a street in Central London had to be shut down due to reports of a chemical weapons attack. It was actually a Thai restaurant cooking up hot sauce.
p8Adb TIL Studies have shown that babies begin to cry silently in the womb at as early as 28 weeks, the findings where stumbled upon while researching the effects of tobacco and cocaine on pregnancy for another purpose.
m14lM TIL that in Iceland, "playing chess with the Pope" is a phrase that means to defecate.