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TIL California still has a large oil industry right in major cities like LA, but disguises the sites to look like office buildings.

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xrWw TIL Dalmations are seen in popular culture as “firehouse dogs” because of their natural affinity towards horses They would commonly run alongside or underneath the horse drawn fire carriages in the days of old
97n6 TIL that John Hughes wrote Ferris Bueller’s Day Off in less than a week and went on to shoot the film on what was essentially his first draft of the script.
ADLrx TIL, a coywolf (or woyote)is a canid hybrid descended from coyotes, eastern wolves and gray wolves.
kOA91 TIL the most relaxing song in the world is Weightless by Marconi Union. In collaboration with the British Academy of Sound Therapy, the carefully arranged harmonies, rhythms and bass lines help to slow the heart rate, reduce blood pressure and lower levels of the stress hormone cortisol.
GA5jE TIL the Moon has a smell—like burnt gunpowder. Apollo astronauts noticed it after taking off their helmets inside the lander. The weird part? Lunar dust has nothing in common with gunpowder. Scientists think it reacts with oxygen, but the smell disappears on Earth