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Today I learned loss of smell is stronger predictor of imminent death than the diagnosis of cancer, heart disease, or lung disease

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e0d7J TIL Ash Ketchum comes from CATCH EM ALL...
XB0D TIL Creed from the american show “The Office” is actually Creed Bratton, a former member of the band “The Grass Roots” and is playing a fictional version of himself in the show.
vMPK TIL that hours before his death Edgar Allen Poe was found on the streets of Baltimore. He was incoherent, wearing another man’s clothes, and unable to explain how he got there. The cause of his death is an unsolved mystery.
nWpX7 TIL that it is illegal to frown in Milan, Italy. It is legal requirement to smile all the times except funerals and hospital visits
9w8bp TIL in the UK alone, some 7 million Halloween costumes are binned each year, equivalent of 2000 tons of plastic, and globally less than 13% of material inputs to clothing manufacture are recycled and only 1% of clothing textiles are recycled into new clothes. According to The Fairyland Trust.