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TIL Petrichor is the earthy scent produced when rain falls on dry soil. The scent is from water interacting with plant oils.

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4kK6N TIL 5 oil pipe workers were sucked into an oil pipe. One made it out and requested help for the others but no one did a thing.
PY70e TIL that Ceres, the largest asteroid ever discovered, is also classified as a dwarf planet.
Y7gN7 TIL that Caillou the Canadian animated series had a British dub!
p8A1A TIL When a 39-year old James Watson lectured at the Lindau Meeting in 1967, he was the second youngest Nobel Laureate to do so. The youngest, Rudolf Mößbauer, Nobel Laureate in Physics 1961, gave his first Lindau lecture at the unusually low age of 36
epNxD TIL tuberculosis was the leading cause of death in the U.S. during the 19th and early 20th centuries. An estimated 450 Americans died of the disease each day - most between the ages of 15 and 44.