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TIL there is a name for the scent of rain

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ARwd TIL not a single cactus grows in the Sahara, as cacti are native only to the Americas.
Yg6x TIL that Wikipedia is about as accurate as Encyclopaedia Britannica.
PYape TIL in 1985, a Boeing 747 tumbled nearly 5.7 miles straight down before the pilots were able to get back control, just seconds before crashing. No one died.
jNARQ TIL of Thad Roberts, a former NASA intern who spent 6 years in prison for stealing 17 lbs of moon rocks. He wanted to ‘give the moon’ to a girl he liked, so they stole the rocks together, spread them across his bed, had sex on top of them, and then tried to sell them online to undercover FBI agents
EGQx TIL television networks accidentally aired an episode of Three’s Company where John Ritter’s scrotum is briefly visible. When asked about the scene, John Ritter requested networks air both versions of the re-run, edited and unedited, because “sometimes you feel like a nut, and sometimes you don’t.”