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TIL Trimethylaminuria is a metabolic disorder that makes people constantly smell like dead and rotten fish.

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7rJ5L TIL a separatist movement in the 60% German-speaking Italian province of South Tyrol advocates the region's reunification with neighboring Austria. Italy was incentivized to enter World War I when a treaty permitted absorbing Tyrol. It was ceded in reparations, breaking Woodrow Wilson's promise.
4knZb TIL that George Michael made his first American acting debut in March 2008 on the US TV show, Eli Stone. His character was a guardian angel that appeared as visions to Jonny Lee Miller’s character. Each episode of the show’s first season was also named after George Michael songs.
jwvv TIL the whole “mdma makes holes in your brain” thing is a complete myth, brought into existence by anti-drug campaigns.
worb8 TIL the political terms "left" and "right" first appeared during the French Revolution of 1789 when members of the National Assembly divided into conservative supporters of the old regime to the assembly president's right and the more liberal supporters of the revolution to his left
nlBo TIL Frosted Flakes cannot be trademarked and other products can be named Frosted Flakes