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TIL The smell of freshly cut grass is actually the scent that plants release when in distress.

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yVlMw TIL of La Bougie du Sapeur. A French satirical newspaper that is only published 29th February. It has been published since 1980 and there have been a total of 12 issues to date
x54B TIL a german company attempted to create spray-on condoms for men with unusually sized or oddly shaped penises, but stopped production when men got intimidated by the machine
b0EE TIL that Adobe was shocked that its software was being used in Blue’s Clues’ production by Nickelodeon. Adobe’s developers never knew it could be used to create character animation on the scale that Blue’s Clues was using.
l71N5 TIL that almost all of the buildings that collapsed in the Great Hanshin (Kobe) 1995 earthquake and the 2011 Tohoku (Fukushima) earthquake were built before the 1981 “shin-taishin”, or New Earthquake Resistant Building Standard Amendment, was enacted.
xMk5 TIL, Jimmy Doyle, a boxer who died shortly after a fight with Sugar Ray Robinson, took the fight to buy his mum a house. Robinson, kindly gave all the money from his next 4 fights to Doyle’s Mum, to buy that house. She spent the money on drugs and legal terms to try and sue Robinson for more money.