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TIL of "scent branding" and how businesses pump custom scents into their buildings. Nike's signature scent was reportedly inspired by the smell of a rubber basketball sneaker as it scrapes across the court and a soccer cleat in grass and dirt.

yQ8gX TIL in Finland the Black Sabbath song 'Paranoid' is regularly requested by concert goers as a joke much like the Lynyrd Skynyrd song 'Freebird' is in the United States. Regardless of the band or their musical style audiences will shout "Soittakaa 'Paranoid'!" ("Play 'Paranoid'!") during a concert
4kvWR TIL clover used to be part of every lawn as it was cheap and easy to maintain. After WWII pesticide companies declared it a weed and until recently it's been removed from laws.
4XAAX TIL for the first Harry Potter film, some scenes were filmed twice, with the actors saying 'Philosopher's Stone' for the UK version and 'Sorcerer's Stone' for the US version.
4mgN TIL a Michigan man named Jeremy Grinnell was caught after having propped up a ladder under a couple’s bedroom window and climbing up to watch them having sex. At the time, Grinnell was a local pastor and assistant professor at Grand Rapids Theological Seminary.
awNky TIL that the first jazz performance of "Someday My Prince Will Come" was by the Ghetto Swingers at the Theresienstadt concentration camp in 1943. To avoid causing controversy, the band had to change the program name from "Music by Frank Churchill" to "Music from Disney's Snow White"