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TIL: Humans and bananas share about 40 to 60 percent of the same DNA

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eJ1n TIL the US Post Office sells a $25 stamp that’s required for duck hunting. The proceeds go to conservation efforts.
9Yrxm TIL about the spitting stone in Bremen, Germany, where people express their disgust by spitting at a stone which marks the execution spot of Gesche Gottfried who poisoned 15 people with arsenic during the early 19th century.
LQrDd TIL Taking a double dose of Plan B if overweight does not make it more effective.
GAoG TIL Chuck Yeager, the first man to break the sound barrier in a plane, did it with a broken arm and two broken ribs and had to close the plane’s cockpit with a broomstick.
ANrAB TIL in Denmark you had to officially check underneath your vehicle to make sure there aren't children hiding/sleeping there.