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TIL that your nose can remember 50,000 scents.

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lodlA TIL - The Holy Roman Empire fought against the United States in the Revolutionary War of 1775-1783.
NRVN TIL: In 1856, American politician, Preston Brooks (D), beat Senator Charles Sumner ® with a cane on the floor of the United States Senate in retaliation for an anti-slavery speech. He resigned his seat later in the year, only to be reelected to the same position left vacant by his resignation.
VBMy0 TIL that Ferdinand Marcos Sr. had a family with 4 children before marrying Imelda Marcos.
loYrN TIL that George Orwell fought in the spanish civil war and was shot in the neck. There is now a square in Barcelona named after him called 'Plaça de George Orwell'. Ironically, the square was once one of the most heavily surveillanced places in Spain.
9Yrbp TIL that there were more ancient capitals of Russia (though the country had another name then) and that scientists don't know which of two cities, Staraya Ladoga or Velikiy Novgorod, was really the capital. But what's more interesting is that you can see what archeologists have dig out at the both!