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TIL brontosaurus never existed

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Bggjy TIL: The smell of rotten eggs from natural gas is added to identify it, natural gas is inherently odorless.
JgXB TIL there are more barrels of Bourbon in Kentucky than there are people.
L7eV TIL of Robert Johnson, a blues musician who played on street corners and died at 27 with little success. 23 years later, in 1961, his LP was reissued and became a huge influence on rock ‘n roll, including Mick Jagger and Eric Clapton, who called him “the most important blues singer that ever lived.”
QN90k TIL In 1974 there were so many tornado warnings in Indiana that forecasters couldn't keep up. In frustration, they ended up putting the entire state under a tornado warning. This was the first and only time this has ever happened.
OGgJ6 TIL when introduced, there was a conspiracy saying the creation Zip Codes was masked Communism made “to depersonalize or dehumanize” Americans