› added 8 years ago

225

TIL that wonderful smell in the air after it rains is a combination of plant oils, bacterial spores, and ozone.

Read more smithsonianmag.com

via reddit.com

Z8kmG TIL that Bangladesh and the U.S. state of Illinois are approximately the same size in area (57,000 sq miles or 149,000 km2) yet Bangladesh has a population of 162,000,000 people, and Illinois has 12,000,000.
kOkv1 TIL of Gavel, a K-9 Cadet who was fired from the Police Academy for being too friendly after months of training; he then got a new job as Vice-Regal Dog for the Office of the Governor in Queensland where he greets visitors, attends official functions, sits in on Governor's briefings
69PvW Today I learned that there's a philosophy that posits that the collective meaning of life is to gain knowledge and help in human progress
ZpyyY TIL that if you were able to fold a sheet of paper in half, over and over, after 103 folds that piece of paper would larger than the whole observable universe.
woXDP TIL about 14 year old Leslie Mahaffy, whose mom locked her out of her house for missing curfew to attend a friend's wake. That night, she was abducted and murdered by serial killers Karla Homolka and Paul Bernardo.