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Everything around us is made of atoms, but it turns out that the building blocks of the Universe are far stranger than that

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wmB1 TIL the scent of rain is called “Petrichor”, and it occurs when rain hits dry earth.
rwnx TIL that King George VI was appalled when the South African government instructed him to only shake hands with white people while on his visit there in 1947. He referred to his South African bodyguards as “the Gestapo”.
9wBeX TIL Kool-Aid wasn’t used in the 1978 Jonestown massacre; the poisoned drink was Flavor Aid. So the phrase “drinking the Kool-Aid,” used to describe blind or dangerous devotion, is historically incorrect.
0L0R TIL due to ancient interactions between the Celts and the Vikings, an Atlantic Canadian dialect includes inhaling sharply to say “yes”.
KObOa TIL a Japanese company makes chopsticks out of broken baseball bat's.