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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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6Eanm TIL about Jean baptiste Kim who defected from South korea because his family faced incarceration.After being a french citizen he worked for the North korean authorities for 11 years, and served as the foreign correspondent for North korean newspaper Rodong shinmun.
9w5o6 TIL about "doublets" or "twinlings" - two words that have the same root, but different meanings due to branching paths. For example, the Latin word "clocca" (bell) became "cloak" through French (because it looks like wearing a cloth bell) and "clock" through Dutch (because of the bell chimes).
EgOKV TIL the USA launched, and failed, an expedition against Mexican revolutionary Pancho Villa
P1xmO TIL Gibraltar was awarded city status in 1842 but it was officially recognised only in 2022 after it was discovered by researchers in the National Archives
8eQe8 TIL that Sugar Ray Robinson had won all but one of his previous 132 fights, when he was defeated by unknown British boxer Randolph Turpin in 1951. Turpin became the first Brit to hold the middleweight championship since 1891