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TIL over 36,000 people a year die in the US alone from car accidents

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5YZYn TIL Not only are unripe (green) bananas edible, eating them Before They’re Ripe Comes With Surprising Benefits for Your Blood Sugar and Gut Health. Green bananas can help keep our blood sugar in check, maintain gut health, and curb excessive eating.
0wNEA TIL Starbucks wasted millions of litres of water by letting their taps run all day and banning their employees from turning taps off
grRw7 TIL of The Trimates: three female primatologists (Jane Goodall, Dian Fossey, and Birutė Galdikas) who studied chimpanzees, gorillas, and orangutans respectively. Chosen and funded by anthropologist Louis Leaky, he viewed their work as key to understanding human evolution
6EP8Q TIL A 17 year old was once charged with 10 counts of sexual exploitation and placed on the sex offenders list for possessing nude selfies of himself.
NbMP TIL that in Ancient Greece, small penises were desirable, and big ones were for ‘old men and barbarians’