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TIL Petrichor is the word for the earthy scent produced when rain falls on dry soil.

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KWo9 TIL that 75% of Australia’s living species are still unknown to man
GGoN TIL The first man to be killed by a motor vehicle accident in the USA happened 125 years ago today
WxXN TIL that in Chinese-occupied Tibet, the Tibetan’s own language has been banned.
QNv96 TIL about Bummer and Lazarus, two stray dogs that roamed the streets of San Francisco in the early 1860s. Recognized for their unique bond and their prodigious rat-killing ability, they became a fixture of city newspapers, were exempted from local ordinances, and immortalized in cartoons.
Me5v8 TIL that in 2000 a doctor was driven from her home by vandals who were confused between paedophile and paediatrician and thought she was a child molester.