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TIL Ben Franklin wrote an essay begging scientists to invent farts that smell like perfume.

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nZyo TIL that in 1977, the first gay action figure was released and the packaging looked like a closet
dDXwj TIL that the Goddard Institute for Space Studies, the NASA affiliated research center is located in the same building as Tom's Diner, the diner in the show "Seinfeld" as well as the inspiration of the famous song of the same name by Suzanne Vega
0wnKp TIL hummingbirds eat soil and wood ash to supplement their diet of nectar with minerals.
9YxbQ TIL: Project Gutenberg, the world's largest digital library of over 57,000 free public domain ebooks. Contains wide variety of the most historically important literary works.
woyOJ TIL about William Adams, an English navigator who, in 1600, became the first Englishman to reach Japan. He also became one of the first known Western samurai and a key advisor to the shōgun, and one of the first Englishmen to travel to Thailand and Vietnam.