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TIL that your nose can remember 50,000 scents.
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TIL the Bulgarian city of Plovdiv is Europe's oldest city, at some 8000 years old. It's so old that the city sits on about 39 feet of ruins from past cultural layers of the city's development.
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TIL in 1968, a cash-laden bank vehicle was pulled over by a motorcycle cop claiming the car had been rigged with a bomb. The cop got under the car to “defuse” the device. When the car started to smoke, everybody ran. Then the “cop” just drove the car away. The 300M Yen robbery remains unsolved
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TIL that a 2009 study found that the majority of friendships only last about seven years. Although the number of friends a person has in their social circle remains fairly stable, turnover is high. Roughly 70% of a person's friend group will change after seven years.
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TIL Americans “overreport” their church attendance in polls, while diaries of actual behavior show attendance more in line with several European countries.
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TIL the PS3 launched in 2006 at $599 making it one of the most expensive consoles of all-time. But despite it's high price, Sony continued to lose money on every PS3 sold until 2010.