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TIL Only one NFL player has died on the field: Chuck Hughes in 1971. The game continued with a silent crowd

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JmE1 TIL - ‘Petrichor’ is the word for 'the smell of rain.’ Petrichor is caused by the oil exuded by plants during dry times to slow seed growth being washed into the air by the rain.
4k9e6 TIL Cold directly influences the results of therapy for the treatment of androgenetic alopecia and is one key to deminiaturization of the hair follicle.
nWW8G TIL the CIA sent its manual titled "Psychological Operations in Guerrilla War" to Nicaraguan rebels by balloon in March of 1984 during the Nicaraguan Revolution.
YYmr TIL Margaret Ann Neve is history’s first recorded supercentarian, having lived in the 18th, 19th and 20th century.
awkMZ TIL that multiple investigations into Hurricane Katrina and its impact on New Orleans concluded that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, which had designed and built the region’s levees decades earlier, was responsible for the failure of the flood-control systems.