10 Things You Didn’t Know Had Names

mental_floss Blog » The Quick 10: 10 Things You Didn’t Know Had Names: "1. You know how it smells after it rains? That clean, greenish smell when rain lands on dry ground? That’s petrichor, from the Greek petra (stone) and ichor (the blood of Greek gods and goddesses). The term was coined by two Australian researchers in 1964."