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TIL Led Zeppelin never had a number one hit.

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v1PeL TIL the Belgian national dish "les frites" was wrongly given the name "French Fries" by World War One American servicemen moving through Wallonia, a French-speaking region of Belgium, creating confusion with the invention’s nationality.
j6OE TIL the awesome smell of rain is caused by Geosmin, which is an “organic compound with a distinctly earthy flavour and aroma”. Humans can detect it at 5 parts per trillion.
lXba TIL Diane Fossey, a gorilla conservationist would track down poachers and torture them including setting one of their hut’s on fire and kidnapping their child for hostage. In her attempts to save the gorillas she made many enemies leading to her death, which is still unsolved.
Lk1Dp TIL that Keanu Reeves runs a private charitable foundation to fund cancer research and children’s hospitals. In 2009, he told Ladies Home Journal: "I don’t like to attach my name to it, I just let the foundation do what it does."
1ane8 TIL that "Inemuri", in Japan the practice of napping in public, may occur in work, meetings or classes. Sleeping at work is considered a sign of dedication to the job, such that one has stayed up late doing work or worked to the point of complete exhaustion, and may therefore be excusable.