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

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XVyD TIL Michael Keaton refused 15,000,000 to play Batman Forever because Tim Burton was dropped as its director.
rWJ0 TIL In 1994 Pearl Jam helped kick off a Justice Department antitrust probe into TicketMaster, so TickerMaster hired a law firm with partners posted in the DOJ anti-trust division. The investigation was dismissed soon after, and TicketMaster’s monopoly practices have continued unchecked ever since.
PYGAO TIL That the earliest recorded English song is “Mary had a little lamb” recorded by Edison in 1877
ADbkd TIL foxes are more closely related to walruses than to cats
wLGnY TIL that when wooly mammoths went extinct, their territorial grassland was replaced with birch forests. This ushered in an age of forest fires so significant that it may have changed the global climate.