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TIL Jay Jackson, the actor who played Perd Hapley in Parks and Rec, used to be a real newscaster and only takes acting roles as a newscaster

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l7Zpr TIL metal or blood by itself doesn't have a smell. The "metallic" smell of blood is instead derived from Fe2+ (iron) ions in metal/blood which react with fatty acids in sweat, forming 1-octen-3-one, which gives the characteristic "metallic" smell of metals and blood.
GdLj TIL: Bing Crosby was the best-selling recording artist of the 20th century, having sold over one billion records, tapes, compact discs and digital downloads around the world.
rAk0 TIL The NVA said they could smell the American soldiers due to Marijuana usage, not eating indigenous foods of Vietnam and because they used scented soaps.
M7EbW TIL of Harriet, a tortoise owned by Steve Irwin's Australia zoo that was estimated to be 175 years old when she died in 2006. Reportedly collected from the Galapagos by C.Darwin, she first arrived in Australia in the mid 19th century. For over 100 years, she was mistaken for a male and named Harry
e0WLJ TIL Bruce McMahan, a hedge fund billionaire who married his biological daughter and maintained a manipulative, adulterous, and incestuous relationship with her, managed to successfully scrub his existence from the internet after it was revealed.