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TIL that people who can't smell things are called ANOSMIC

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xme7 TIL taking magic mushrooms, just once ,can permanently change a person’s personality, even as an adult.
p7bZ TIL that Singapore (with a fertility rate of 0.79) held a “National Night” in 2012 designed to encourage couples to “create a population spurt” by “letting their patriotism explode!”
4rmw TIL that a priest on the Titanic refused to board a life boat twice, and instead stayed behind to hear confessions and give absolution to the people left on the ship.
r76M TIL there’s a line of 70 foot long concrete arrows that bisects the country longitudinally all the way from San Francisco to New York City. They’re from the pre-digital age and were installed by the Federal gov’t in 1924 with 50’ tall towers with rotating gas-powered lights to aid lost pilots.
5Bbk TIL that Jericho Israel has been continuously inhabited since 9400 BCE and is thought to be one of the oldest continuously occupied cities in the world.