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TIL ponderosa pine trees bark smells like butterscotch.
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TIL some of the acts at Woodstock weren't paid very much. Jimi Hendrix and Blood, Sweat & Tears were highest paid at $18,000 and $15,000 respectively - but at the low end acts like Joe Cocker ($1375), Santana ($750), and Melanie ($750) were payed much less. Sha Na Na was only paid $700!
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TIL A 17 year old high school football player who was black had a relationship with a 32 year old white crackhead prostitute in rural North Carolina. He was found hanging from a swing set, in a trailer park, in shoes he did not own, that did not fit, and it was ruled a suicide.
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TIL in 1826, Joseph Smith (founder of Mormonism) was brought before a Chenango County court for “glass-looking”, or pretending to find lost treasure.
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TIL Brent McKenzie from Flight of the Conchords was an extra in LOTR Return of the King. Fans have since dubbed his character, Figwit.
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TIL of Norman Borlaug, “the man who saved a billion lives” by creating a new type of wheat that was highly productive and resistant to the weather - it saved Mexico, India and Pakistan from famine.