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TIL Dolphins have no sense of smell.

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8epdP Today I learned there are microbes and diseases plushies!
e0N5 TIL Since 1988, US Presidential Debates aren’t debates at all, but closer to scripted news conferences where questions are agreed upon by both parties, answers are rehearsed into concise sound bites, and third parties are discouraged from participating.
WkXno TIL about the art piece "Machine with Concrete" by Arthur Ganson. It's a series of gears and screws driven at 200RPM that end in a final gear embedded in concrete. At that speed it will take over 2 trillion years for the final gear to turn once.
epDZb TIL exactly what it means to be “Hanged, drawn and quartered”: “…fastened to a hurdle, or wooden panel, and drawn by horse to the place of execution, where he was then hanged (almost to the point of death), emasculated, disembowelled, beheaded, and quartered (chopped into four pieces).”
8KvV TIL Sture Bergwall, Sweden’s most notorious serial killer who was incarcerated after confessing to at least 30 murders and crimes such as rape and cannibal, was later found to have been a manipulative liar. He never actually killed a single person.