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

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16lQX TIL of the Ancient Roman punishment of “decimatio”, or decimation. Cowardly or disobedient Legionaries would be grouped into tens, with the tenth man being stabbed or beaten to death by the other nine
BgB7D TIL Shakespeare's accent was (probably) closer to American English than British English
6EKdX TIL that “elevator music” and “hold music” had its beginnings in WWI when an Army Major General, George Owen Squier, invented a way to transmit music from phonograph records, long distance over electrical power lines. This invention led him to start the Muzak company.
78rRx TIL in the original pressings of Stevie Wonder's album "The Secret Life of Plants," manufacturers sprayed the cover's inside with a perfume of flower scent (you can still faintly detect it in some copies.) Then people discovered the vinyl records were being eaten away by the scent solution.
9wNwX TIL that around 2020, anthropogenic mass (human-made material) was expected to exceed all living biomass on earth