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TIL The English vocabulary makes it very difficult to describe smells - we can only describe odors by comparing the smell to other things

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a8AZ TIL: The phrase “on the rocks” came from the “olden days” in Scotland, where scott’s who didn’t have ice would go to the river and take stones chilled by the mountain snow and add it to there drinks. And that’s where the phrase, scotch “on the rocks” comes from
Mexx7 TIL: Giraffes face 'silent extinction' as population shrinks nearly 40%
b6yK9 TIL Baby Blue (Badfinger song, the one from Breaking Bad's last scene) was written about a lady called Dixie Armstrong, whom Pete Ham really liked.
4GMb TIL the peak output of a horse can reach nearly 15 horsepower
Kk9R TIL that Johnny Carson, on the Tonight Show, had an ongoing gag involving the effort to find the line that’s least likely to ever be uttered. He settled finally on, “This is the banjo player’s Porsche.”