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TIL there is a name for the scent of rain

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xVJB5 TIL of Northwest Airlines Flight 188. The pilots got distracted and overflew their destination by 150 miles.
RAZl TIL The “Black Death” plague (Yersinia pestis) still exists in the US (1–17 reported cases per year).
XEonD TIL a florida man tired of other drivers using their cellphones installed a signal jammer in his car and was fined by the FCC $48,000 for its use
lBZ1 TIL James Bond: Tomorrow Never Dies was the first movie whose production budget was completely paid for by product placement.
xXg0 TIL that in 1973, a drunk driver struck and killed the world’s most isolated tree, in the middle of the Sahara desert