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

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r05w TIL Buster Keaton (“a master of conveying action through imagery alone”) and Charlie Chaplin had a friendly rivalry over who could use the fewest intertitles in their silent movies. Typical silents averaged 240 intertitles. Chaplin won with a low of 21; Buster got as low as 23.
wodVP TIL about Jaswant Singh Rawat: The Lone Indian Rifleman Who Held Off a Chinese Battalion for 72 Hours During the Indo-Sino War
xb87 TIL that there is an Egyptian sculpture which bears a striking resemblance to Michael Jackson at the Field Museum in Chicago (pic)
neGJB TIL of Hamako Mori. She is 90 years old and set the Guinness World Record for being the oldest Gaming Youtuber.
awXDN TIL Air bags are not inflated from some compressed gas source but rather from the products of a chemical reaction. The chemical at the heart of the air bag reaction is called sodium azide, or NaN3.