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TIL a Baltimore school was evacuated and hazardous materials crews were called due to a strange odor. The source of the odor was a pumpkin spice air freshener.

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wLGE6 TIL in 2012, a man attempted to pay his traffic ticket with 137 origami dollar bills shaped as pigs, inside of 2 doughnut boxes. The clerk called in police, who required him to unfold every single one to pay his ticket. The event was regarded by the ticketed man as, "The Great Dollar Pig Massacre.".
7rjbM TIL that not all wines are vegan or even vegetarian, due to animal products used to help clarify the wines during the fining process.
e0nMk TIL a wedding photographer was awarded $1,080,000 in a defamation suit when a couple refused to pay for a $125 fee.
N9RJ TIL the US Navy exploded several 500 ton shots of TNT in Hawaii during 1965 to determine the damage caused by nuclear weapons without radiation risks. The craters left behind are inland but connected to the Pacific ocean underground.
d8Npd TIL On the magnitude scale, brightest objects have the smallest number and the faintest objects have the largest numbers. The full moon has a magnitude of - 12.6 while the brightness of the Sun is about -26.7