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TIL the word for loving the smell of old books is Bibliosmia and that scientists can analyse the chemicals responsible for the old book smell to determine the books age.
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TIL that during the filming of the James Bond film Goldfinger (1964), the actor Harold Sakata who played Oddjob, badly burned his hand in the electrocution scene. However Sakata managed to last until the director said cut.
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TIL Pavlov's dog experiment was widely misunderstood because of mistranslation and misconstruction. Pavlov never used a bell to condition dogs to salivate, because a bell was an imprecise control. Instead he used tones, duration of tones and electric shock to study physiological reflexes.
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TIL: The word “weird” used to mean “having the power to control fate”, deriving from the proto-norse “wyrd” which roughly means “fate”.
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TIL In South Park, Cartman’s crack/sex addicted, hermaphrodite mother “Liane” was named after a cheating ex-fiance of Trey Parker.