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TIL Forests Are Dying in Thailand Due to the Loss of Elephants and Their Revitalizing Poop

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b6OKE TIL that Parkinson's Disease (PD) has a unique scent. Using her heightened sense of smell, 72-year-old Joy Milne can detect PD progression even before the onset of symptoms. She has since worked with scientists to develop a skin-swab test that can detect the disease with a purported 95% accuracy.
4kag6 TIL that the highest point in Florida is Britton Hill, at 345 feet of elevation.
dj98 TIL Mac users prefer bigger fonts than Windows users, because Apple doesn’t use ClearType font rendering technique (patented by Microsoft) that improves the readability of smaller fonts
xEOw TIL that unlike many nations, Japanese banknotes feature portraits of artists, scientists and teachers
jN45j TIL that the German city of Augsburg was given a colony in present-day Venezuela called Klein-Venedig in the 1500s when the Habsburg emperor couldn't repay a loan back in cash