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TIL there is a name for the scent of rain

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m1NJY TIL that French General Philippe Petain in 1916 was called from a hotel room where he was spending the night with a Miss Hardon, to take charge of the Battle of Verdun.
g7MX TIL when a factory worker from Wonka was asked about the production of Nerds candy, he said “Basically we start off with a sugar crystal and we just keep coating it with more sugar.”
PM5Z TIL that Hitler predicted the Cold War. “there will remain in the world only two Great Powers capable of confronting each other – the United States and Soviet Russia.”
QJkR6 TIL the phrase “butter someone up” is derived from a religious act in ancient India wherein the devout would throw butter balls at the statues of their favorite gods to seek favor and forgiveness.
Z8ZD TIL Bush’s African Aids program spends 2/3 of the money on abstinence only programs, will only give condoms to “high risk” groups, won’t support clean needles and while saving lives it could have saved millions more.