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TIL about Trimethylamine disorder that makes sufferers smell like rotting fish, rotting eggs, garbage, or urine.

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R194 TIL that the always bubbly Who’s Line Is It Anyway star Wayne Brady suffers from severe depression. After having a mental breakdown at 42 years old and Robin Williams death in 2014 made him realize how important it was to speak publicly about facing depression
1aDaD TIL: "The Momsen Lung" was a device used in World War 2 to escape submarines over 100ft deep. It recycled oxygen in your breath while filtering C02. It was used only once, in 1944, by 9 members of the USS Tang after it torpedoed itself and sank in 180 feet of water
pdKe TIL a Russian man once broke into the house of, and murdered, an air traffic controller who caused the Überlingen plane crash…and subsequently was praised and appointed deputy minister in his town.
6EG7 TIL that in 1827, a man bought a boat and filled it with various types of animals; then sailed it over the Niagara Falls.
v1OoD TIL: The Walt Disney Company is the second largest purchaser of explosive devices, right behind the U.S. Department of Defense.