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

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KbEQ TIL James Naismith, the inventor of basketball, went on to coach at the University of Kansas where he’s the only coach in school history with a losing record.
NXewJ TIL The American edit of Godzilla 1985 was originally meant to be more comedic but the actors refused. Raymond Burr would not treat Godzilla as a joke because the character was an anti-nuclear war allegory and Warren Kemmerling just refused to do comic material.
X05v8 TIL In 2022, 68 year-old Maya Murmu was collecting water in India when an elephant stamped on her. She was rushed to the hospital, but died from her injuries. When family members gathered for her funeral, a herd of elephants appeared, and one of them lifted Murmu’s body and threw it in the air.
E1bZ0 TIL about the windshield phenomenon. People tend to find fewer insects smashed on the windscreens of their cars now compared to a decade or several decades ago.
MejgW TIL about the Jabuticaba tree which grows warts like fruits directly on its trunk.