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TIL the smell of rain is caused by bacteria

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6pK8 TIL That Brian Wilson did a cover of the Barenaked Ladies song ‘Brian Wilson’.
Bgp6K TIL cows don't have upper front teeth, instead they have dental padding, which helps them hold on to more gras while grazing
16p9P TIL in 1999 a British man, angered at being charged £20 for going £10 overdrawn, legally changed his name to "Yorkshire Bank plc are Fascist Bastards" just to receive a return cheque in that name to settle the account
P6BZ TIL in responding to why he starred in Jaws: The Revenge, Michael Caine said “I have never seen the film, but by all accounts it was terrible. However, I have seen the house that it built, and it is terrific.”
4k4eJ TIL that David Blaine has over the course of a decade been buried alive for 7 days, encased in ice for 64 hrs, stood on 100ft high pillar for 35 hrs, survived only on water for 44 days and spent 7 days submerged underwater water