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

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OGA54 TIL that Sting accidentally sat on a piano at the beginning of “Roxanne” and they kept it in the recording.
4kn5J TIL: Louis St. Laurent, the 12th Prime Minister of Canada, had a lifespan that overlapped with the lives of every single other Canadian PM, from Sir. John A. Macdonald to Justin Trudeau.
5Y4YP TIL of Otis Blackwell, a black songwriter who wrote some of Elvis Presley's songs including "Return to Sender" and "All Shook Up". The two never met.
R7Em6 TIL that in World War 1, Nobel prize winning physicist Marie Curie developed mobile X-Ray stations to travel to the frontlines and assist army surgeons and preventing amputations when limbs were still intact. It's estimated that over a million wounded soldiers were x-rayed with her units.
NE71 TIL In 1995 a 6 year old Tibetan boy was named the eleventh Panchen Lama, detained by the People’s Republic of China, and never seen again.