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TIL Beatles super fans called Apple Scruffs had a goal of making the band's lives better by helping the security, helping bring food, etc

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Gbyg TIL that pleasant earthy smell after rain is called Petrichor and occurs due to the soil absorbing and then releasing oils from certain plants.
OGQDe TIL United States had $1 coins until 2011
W75m4 TIL China has a Social Credit System similar to Black Mirror’s “Nosedive”
jbrv TIL that for Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, director Alfonso Cuarón had Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, and Emma Watson write autobiographical essays about their characters. Grint didn’t write one, as “I’m Ron; Ron wouldn’t do it.”
OowjL TIL that an underachieving Princeton student wrote a term paper describing how to make a nuclear bomb. He got an A but his paper was taken away by the FBI.