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Welcome to Stuff I Learned Yesterday. My name is Darrell Darnell, the clock in my studio is a DHARMA Initiative themed clock, and I believe that if you aren’t learning, you aren’t living. In today’s episode of Stuff I Learned Yesterday I’m pleased to bring you another installment of the Friday Forum.
Today’s fun fact: There is an English word for the scent that is produced during rainfall on dry soil: Petrichor. The term was coined in 1964 by two Australian scientists studying the smells of wet weather. It is derived from a pair of chemical reactions.
Some plants secrete oils during dry periods, and when it rains, these oils are released into the air. The second reaction that creates petrichor occurs when chemicals produced by soil-dwelling bacteria are released. These aromatic compounds combine to create the pleasant petrichor scent when rain hits the ground.
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