ELI5: They say 70% of taste is smell. When we smell, let’s say a public restroom, are we actually inhaling and “tasting” particles? | Category: Explain Source More
TIL Christopher Columbus was stuck in Jamaica with angry natives refusing to give him food. Knowing that a lunar eclipse was going to happen, Columbus told the natives that his gods were angry for refusing him food. After the eclipse, the scared natives gave him lots of food and begged for mercy. | Category: Learned More
TIL that when humans domesticated wolves, we basically bred Williams syndrome into dogs, which is characterized by “cognitive difficulties and a tendency to love everyone” | Category: Learned More
TIL of ‘The Great Impostor’, who successfully impersonated a career as a ship’s doctor, a civil engineer, a sheriff’s deputy, an assistant prison warden, a doctor of applied psychology, a hospital orderly, a lawyer, a child-care expert, amonk, an editor, a cancer researcher, and a teacher | Category: Learned Source More
TIL That 7% of all American adults (which equates to around 16 million people) believe that chocolate milk comes from brown cows | Category: Learned Source More
