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TIL: Rolling Stone readers voted Nirvana at one of the worst bands of the 1990’s. Right along with Creed, Limp Bizkit and Hanson.

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vP4mj TIL The plane crash in Breaking Bad mirrors the real-life 1986 Cerritos mid-air collision, and the junior air traffic controller involved was actually named Walter White.
nWaPd TIL that the oldest giraffe living under human care spent most of her life in Lufkin, Texas.
jNBkX TIL A new school textbook that aims to teach boys how to be "masculine" men has been released in China. Called "Little Men," the book covers the differences between boys and girls, the importance of the father-son relationship as well as the importance of interacting with nature and managing money
WkYx9 TIL:Toast falling off a plate lands butter-side down almost 2/3 of the time.It’s nothing to do with one side being buttered, its that as the toast goes over the edge of the plate, it starts to rotate, but the spin-rate is too slow to bring the butter-side up again by the time it hits the floor
GVwE TIL there’s a word for the smell of earth after rain… ‘Petrichor’