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TIL Geosmin compound causes the earthy petrichor smell of rain after a dry spell, also causes muddy freshwater fish taste...diminished by acidic cooking

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rR1v1 TIL that a small town in West Virginia asked the Soviet Union and East Germany for help with replacing a bridge after being ignored by the West Virginian goverment. The Soviets sent a journalist to investigate and within one hour the state finally agreed to pay for it.
Eg8VP TIL that UGG and UGG since 1974 aren’t the same company. The shoes we have been buying in the USA all these years aren’t even made in Australia, and are not created by the original company.
16pbd TIL about Danish Pålægschokolade, which translates to “chocolate to put on bread”. They are thin slices of chocolate that are used as a topping on bread, such as rye or white bread, similar to how chocolate spread is used in many countries.
OoXQe TIL that for the English-language version of the Japanese Studio Ghibli movie, Ponyo, the animators had to painstakingly re-draw the lips and mouth movements to properly match the language change - "You don't think of this as being a dubbed Japanese film."
rL7y TIL on March 9-10, 1945, 300 B29 bombers dropped nearly 500,000 cylinders of napalm and petroleum jelly on Tokyo creating a 40-sq-km firestorm that killed over 100,000 and maimed another million. It was the most destructive single bombing in history, including Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombs.