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TIL the smell of metal is actually Body Odor

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d8mGE TIL the word "algorithm" has its roots in the name of the Persian mathematician of al-Khwarizmi. The word "algebra" is derived from the Latinization of "al-jabr", part of the title of his most famous book. He also oversaw the translation of major Greek and Indian mathematical and astronomical texts.
epkX5 TIL of the Boots Theory of Socioeconomic Unfairness: poor people buy cheap products that need to be replaced repeatedly, proving more expensive in the long run than more expensive items
kJkM5 TIL that as a solo artist, duo, trio, quartet, quintet and musical ensemble, Paul McCartney is the only artist to have reached the top of the UK charts.
VMRND TIL Since female dairy cows are much more valuable than bulls we use machines to sort bull semen into male vs female semen. These machines work based on the fact that XX semen have more DNA than XY, and thus greater mass, and can be automatically discriminated when colored with florescence.
nZ7d TIL that Andy Kaufman once ended a show at Carnegie Hall by loading the entire audience into 24 buses to take them out for milk and cookies.