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TIL ponderosa pine trees bark smells like butterscotch.

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Gaxg TIL in 2006 Ticketmaster President Sean Moriarty publically pleaded for legislation that would make the selling of concert tickets from person to person illegal except through Ticketmaster.
GAygN TIL the "first complete Bible of any sort to be published in America didn’t come along until 1663. John Eliot’s Algonquin-language translation of the Bible, the so-called “Eliot Indian Bible,” was the first Bible to be published in the Western Hemisphere."
yYwJ TIL that playing TETRIS soon after viewing traumatic material, reduces the amount of flashbacks experienced the next week. This is thought to be because the game interrupts memories of the sights and sounds.
ArYl TIL Back in the 90s, GTA 5 actor Shawn Fonteno (Franklin) knocked out Ice Cube in a street fight and took his chain
ADVXg TIL that seemingly pointless zigzags on the roads in the Western US are there to compensate the road grid for the curvature of Earth.