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By tracking the evolution of the S1 manifold and ground-state recovery, we infer two distinct relaxation routes upon 370\u00a0nm excitation at the absorption peak: (1) molecules directly populated into S1 relax back to the ground state S0 sequentially via vibrational relaxation within S1 and S1 \u2192 S0 internal conversion (\u223c4.4\u00a0ps) and (2) molecules populated into S2 or higher-lying excited states first feed the S1 manifold (\u223c0.26\u00a0ps) and sequentially relax to highly vibrationally excited S0 (\u223c0.5\u00a0ps). The majority of these molecules cool down through vibrational relaxation, while the minority of them undergo C\u2013NO2 homolytic bond cleavage. Most of the resulting fragments recombine to reform ground-state TATB (\u223c42\u00a0ps), with only a small fraction of NO2 escaping the solvent cage to become the primary photodissociation product. 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