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TIL of Joy Milne - A Scottish woman who astounded doctors by being able to smell Parkinson disease.

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7rYAP TIL 3 Scottish soldiers escaped capture from German soldiers when they spoke their native Gaelic to confuse them after their capture claiming they were Ukrainian. The German soldiers let them go.
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