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TIL that scientists in Japan over a decade ago created an odor recorder that could analyze, store, and reproduce smells.

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rRQZd TIL, in 1976, the United States House Select Committee on Assassinations determined the JFK and MLK assassinations were likely the result of conspiracies.
Egp8p TIL that a 32 page children's picturebook called "The Rabbits' Wedding" was censored in Alabama due to its portrayal of a marriage between white and black rabbits
wLJXW TIL that the cheese slicer (Ostehøvel) was invented by Thor Bjørklund (Nor). The legend has it that, frustrated at the un-even cheese slices he cut with a knife, he wanted to improve the cheese world. He realized that a carpenter’s plane could do the job and the cheese slicer was born.
MeoRA TIL the human brain is estimated to compute at roughly 1 exaFLOP (10^18 operations) per second. The world's currently largest supercomputer operates at 0.2 exaFLOP/s and consumes 13 Megawatts. Our brain uses 20 watts.
LQPYp TIL in 2014, passengers were warned three times not to eat nuts on a Ryanair flight due to a 4-year-old girl's severe nut allergy, but a passenger sitting four rows away from the girl ate nuts anyway. The girl went into anaphylactic shock, and the passenger was banned from the airline for two years.