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TIL Olfactory adaptation is the reason we are unable to smell ourselves or the stench of our regularly lived environments.

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wL6P1 TIL Archduchess Charlotte of Austria spent years as a social worker under the name Charlotte de Bar for charities in NYC and Munich
oeAL TIL that Andre Geim won the satirical Ig Nobel Prize in 2000 for his work on using magnetism to levitate a frog. 10 years later, his experiments regarding graphene won him the 2010 Nobel Prize in Physics. This makes him the only ever recipient of both the Ig Nobel and Nobel Prizes.
e0MVL TIL that the distinctive look of the Curious George books is because, to save money, the artist hand-painted colour separations for a CMYK printing process. Hence the heavy use of primary colours and fringing on secondary ones.
1aB0d TIL Matt Damon started writing Good Will Hunting (1997) as a final assignment for a playwriting class he was taking at Harvard University. At first, it was written as a thriller about a young man who possesses a superior intelligence and is targeted by the government with heavy-handed recruitment.
nn1b TIL the human race almost became extinct 70.000 years ago because of a dry spell.