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TIL Nose blindness (also known as “olfactory adaptation,” or “olfactory fatigue”) causes your brain to let go of certain smells, like the one of your own house! Not being able to smell your body odor or your regular perfume is also an example of olfactory adaptation or nose blindness.

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bVNp TIL Patton (1970) lead actor George C. Scott refused his second Academy Award and later stated “The whole thing is a goddamn meat parade. I don’t want any part of it.”
xJa1 TIL that marine officials in Honduras trained sharks to hunt Lionfish, which were invading the population.
WlPB TIL there was such bad communication between the officers on the Titanic that the ship’s quartermaster, George Rowe, did not know the ship was sinking until he asked why he had seen lifeboats being lowered into the water
xVbE5 TIL of Alejandro Máynez, who attempted to kill a waitress named Ana Benavides, only to find out that she herself was a serial killer as well. Shortly after, she joined with Alejandro in serial murder.
m1XEP TIL the exercise paradox: hunter-gatherers who trek miles daily (or climb up trees) burn the same calories as much-less-active office workers and machine operators