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TIL Humans Can Smell Rain Better Than Sharks Smell Blood

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x6AGo TIL that the New Testament in the BIBLE was written nearly 100 years after Jesus Christ ~ 70 CE
69g7Y TIL that a gothic soap opera ran in the 60s and early 70s called Dark Shadows. This show was focused on the lives of the Colins family who’s characters dealt supernatural monsters and being such as vampires, werewolves, ghosts, witches, and other creatures.
v1vYR TIL the Rocky Mountain Locust once formed a swarm the size of California only to go extinct 30 years later
OoVa TIL when US President McKinley was shot twice in the stomach, he voiced only two concerns - that his aides break the news to his wife gently and to call off the mob that had set upon his assassin. He died 8 days later on September 14th, 1901.
M7XnV TIL that there has been an alternative to the standard http internet, called Project Xanadu, in continuous development for the past 62 years, and was called "the longest running vaporware" even back in 1995.