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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

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XENoD TIL that Stalin struggled with depression and summoned renowned Russian psychiatrist Vladimir Bekhterev to examine him. After the examination Bekhterev said only one word - "paranoiac". He died on the very next day from what most believed was poisoning.
kOKJd TIL that in 2003, scientists conducted an experiment to determine whether the topography of a Kansas or an IHOP pancake was flatter. Turns out, Kansas is.
8D5G TIL There’s a horse named Potoooooooo because according to legend, the stable boy misheard his name “Potato” as “Pot-8-o”, and the stable master was like “eh”
MAXV TIL the disappearance of Saturday Morning Cartoons is due to an FCC mandate requiring networks to air educational programming on Saturday mornings. Many networks abandoned cartoons altogether for news programming
LQELZ TIL New Mexico is the first (and so far only) US state to have an official "state aroma", the scent of roasting green chiles.