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TIL that bacteria called actinomycetes cause ‘the smell of rain.’

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jNAmR TIL in 1981, Ronald Reagan fired 11,345 air traffic controllers after they refused to end their strike and subsequently banned them from federal service for life
ADZd7 When a mosquito bites, it pierces your skin and draws blood with the tip of its straw-like mouth, or proboscis. In the process, the mosquito injects some of its own saliva, which contains an anticoagulant that prevents your blood from clotting around the proboscis and trapping the insect. (Only female mosquitoes, which need the nutrients from the blood to produce eggs, bite.)
Z8WmG TIL that adult males were fathers of 26.8% of babies born to mothers aged 13-14 years.
awV8A TIL of Machine Identification Code (MIC), a pattern of yellow dots color printers add to their output that has metadata about the printer, the document and the operator. Its existence was secret for more than 15 years.
nWeR7 TIL I learned George Harrison was Hindu, and his ashes were spread on the Ganges