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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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DQYrr TIL that caffeine has a paradoxical effect on some people (with ADHD) - it makes them sleepy.
p8yP4 TIL that Dua Lipa is not her stage name and actually is her real complete name. "Dua" means 'love' in Albanian.
N7Xp1 Today I learned that Lamborghini donated a Huracán Rwd to Pope Francis. The car will be auctioned, with proceeds being donated to charitable causes across the globe.
R6LQ TIL Oklahoma has a panhandle because Texas had to abandon all of its land north of Missouri’s southern border to be added as a slave state. It then went unassigned to any territory for 45 years.
mdbE TIL that the 404 error code originated at the CERN labs in Switzerland, where a physical room numbered 404 housed the original WWW database.