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TIL Humans can track scents and can improve with practice

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oRJpA TIL about "The American Beetles", a group of Beatles-imposters created an American promoter in 1964. They eventually conned Argentina (who were under the impression that they were the real Beatles) into booking them for several concerts
X0n6j TIL that Abraham Lincoln’s dog, Fido, was stabbed to death.
7rOdb TIL that it's law in New Mexico that Pluto is still a planet when it passes over the state.
gK1y TIL Saudi Arabia once surgically paralyzed someone as punishment for a crime
awakL TIL Michael Thonet's S214 stool, designed in the 1850s, was the first stool to be produced industrially on a large scale for Europe's rapidly growing urban population in the 19th century.