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TIL that because of different bacteria living on man/woman’s body, man’s sweat smells like cheese and woman’s smells like onions.

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dDEp7 TIL about shotgun houses - narrow rectangular houses about 12 feet wide that were popular in the Southern United States from the end of the American Civil War through the 1920s.
YpDdZ TIL a British mathematician William Shanks famously took 15 years to calculate π to 707 digits, but made a mistake in the 528th digit, rendering all subsequent digits incorrect.
WkXWN TIL that Latvia once was an empire