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TIL Verizon trademarked the smell of their stores, calling it "flowery musk scent".

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GYdG4 TIL DisneyWorld has a Mosquito Surveillance Program designed to track mosquitos using carbon dioxide traps. They also employ chickens and test their blood for mosquito born illness and eradicate them. TIL you won't get bit by mosquitos at Disney World, even though its in the middle of a swamp
E1w97 TIL the Chaco Culture National Historic Site in New Mexico containes ruins built between 800AD-1150AD and remained the largest structures in North America until the 1800's.
yVgw8 TIL about the book "Futility" (1898) revised as "The Wreck of the Titan" (1912) featuring an American ocean liner named Titan that sinks in the North Atlantic Ocean after striking an iceberg. 14 years later the same thing would happen to RMS Titanic.
1aKQD TIL Jim Thorpe, in 1912, has his shoes stolen on the morning of his olympic track and filed events. He simply put on two other shoes that someone had tossed in a trash can. They were different sizes, though, so he had to wear extra socks on one foot to even them out. He went on to win two Gold medal
Z8xYv TIL of Private Sean Benton, one of four young Army recruits to die at Deepcut Barracks between 1995-2002. He died of five gunshot wounds to the chest. His death was ruled a suicide.