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TIL that the decibel (dB) scale is logarithmic instead of linear. The difference between a rock band and an airplane taking off is only about 10dB.

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QNyAe TIL of the The Fort Worth Perfume Panic of 2009, a smell began wafting through a Fort Worth call center that someone quickly recognized as a poisonous carbon monoxide leak. 34 people were hospitalized but no gas leak was ever found. The strange odor that people were complaining about was perfume.
5VYZR TIL about John List, who murdered his whole family in 1971 and eluded capture for 18 years, until his story was broadcast on America’s Most Wanted in 1989.
4X5Yw TIL two high school students found that despite advertising claims that “the blackcurrants in Ribena have four times the vitamin C of oranges,” the drink contained almost no trace of vitamin C and one orange juice brand had over three times more. The company were taken to court and fined NZ$217,500.
xVEGw TIL Halle Berry refused to shower for 10 days to accurately portray a drug-addicted prostitute in Spike Lee's 1991 movie Jungle Fever. She felt sorry for co-star Samuel L. Jackson, "(I played) a foul-mouthed crack-smoking hoe. It’s true (I didn’t wash), ask Sam Jackson, he had to get a whiff of it!"
R5oL6 TIL that fat Chinese criminal Jho Low used to have the sex with supermodel Miranda Kerr