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TIL the sweet "springtime" scent I had been attributing to honeysuckles is actually a Chinese Privet

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9wJvG TIL Johnny Depp was the first person to hear Glass Animals' #1 Billboard hit "Heat Waves". Lead singer Dave Bayley was writing it late at night in a London studio when Depp, working in another studio, snuck into the room while searching for the restroom and listened to the entire unreleased track.
epK96 TIL that 1000 kilometers is equal to 1 megametre (Mm).
P10GE TIL Unlike the majority of the US, Delaware was once a Swedish colony called New Sweden, established during the Thirty Years' War. Settlements were established in present-day Delaware, New Jersey, Maryland, and Pennsylvania. New Sweden existed from 1638 to 1655 before being conquered by the Dutch
R5e09 TIL that the children’s choir in “Another Brick in the Wall, pt. 2” was recorded by Pink Floyd’s producer and engineer without the band’s knowledge. The children were paid with concert tickets, an album and a single; only decades later did they file a claim to receive royalties.
e0NV6 TIL only 19 states including D.C. in the U.S. have universal motorcycle helmet laws that require all riders to wear helmets. Illinois and Iowa have no state law on the books while all other states anyone over the age of 17 to 20 depending on the state is not required to wear a helmet while riding.