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TIL: Humans have odor receptors in the lung.

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KO4x4 TIL in the 80’s and 90’s, the LAPD set up a task force to look into the possibility of an active serial killer they dubbed the “Southside Slayer”. In reality, they had 4 or 5 active serial killers.
XE7Gk TIL: Jefferson Davis, U.S. Senator and President of the Confederacy, was caught by Union soldiers about a month after Robert E. Lee's surrender to Grant, wearing women's clothes in as desperate attempt to evade capture.
v1nx TIL the word ‘escalate’ did not exist until the invention of the escalator.
G6oQ TIL the Mongols once built a large wooden platform and forced six Russian princes to lay down underneath it. The Mongol generals then held a feast on the platform, crushing the Russians to death.
8eXya TIL it wasn't until 1969 that all 50 states had female jurors