› added 6 years ago

181

TIL: As a person quits smoking, residue comes off their lungs and up their nose which now has a heightened sense of smell causing vivid, realistic dreams of smoking

Read more whyquit.com

via reddit.com

ZpGMR TIL of the death of Rudolf Rupp. His wife, two daughters, and one of their boyfriends falsely confessed to and were sentenced to jail for killing, dismembering, and feeding Rupp to dogs on the family farm. They were all later acquitted when his body was found intact in his car in the Danube.
4VOR TIL that in 1970 the English Court of Appeal found that Scientology does not engage in religious worship
YpBkr TIL that astronaut Buzz Aldrin submitted a travel voucher for $31.31 after he returned from the moon
gMYNb TIL: there are two ways to perceive time; ego-moving, where we perceive ourselves moving forward through time, and time-moving, where we perceive time moving toward us. So if asked to move a Tuesday meeting forward a day, half of people would think that meant Monday, the other Wednesday.
gZyW TIL that a London photo developer destroyed all but 11 of the only photos of the June 6th DDay on Omaha Beach. The surviving shots are called the The Magnificent Eleven and inspired the opening scene of Saving Private Ryan