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TIL Some people can smell ants and ant colonies and say they have a unique smell

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EZ77 TIL that MDMA causes “acute harm to person” in approximately 1 in 10,000 episodes of use compared to about 1 in 350 episodes from horse riding.
jN4XM TIL of Joe Petrosino - badge #285 - the NYPD's first Italian police officer. He created the first anti-mafia unit and tipped off the Secret Service about McKinley's assassination, but they didn't act on it.
E1eo7 TIL that Nintendo once owned sex hotels.
Wx5X TIL that for one day in 1940 a section of a hospital in Ottawa, Canada became international territory so a Dutch Princess could be born a full Dutch citizen (a requirement to be a Dutch Princess). Every year the Netherlands sends Canada a gift of tulips to show their gratitude.
nPyb TIL One of the first items sold on eBay was a broken laser pointer. When eBay creator, Pierre Omidyar, emailed the person who bought the broken laser pointer for $14.83 ($22.40 today) to make sure he knew it was broken, the man told him “I’m a collector of broken laser pointers.”