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TIL ponderosa pine trees bark smells like butterscotch.

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loP4a TIL of Dr. Norman Bethune, a Canadian who served as an army doctor in both the Spanish Civil War and Second Sino-Japanese War and invented the first mobile blood transfusion clinic. He is so beloved in China that his eulogy penned by Mao Zedong is required reading in Chinese textbooks.
xVQY5 TIL that the most dangerous nuclear accident in US history, the Three Mile Island incident, didn't affect the environment and had no casualties.
vY5x TIL The tallest building in the world to have a woman as lead architect is in Chicago (Aqua Tower)
mxlgy TIL in 2013 the Pirate Bay faked moving its servers to North Korea. Various news outlets including NBC and ‘Business Insider’ reported the event as factual, without ever updating that it was a hoax.
oRmAW Til about "ulnar dimelia," also known as "mirror hand syndrome" those affected by it have 7-8 fingers on one hand (or both) with no thumbs.