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TIL Bananas can not reproduce. They have no seeds and are entirely reliant on the farmer to cultivate them.

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QnAk TIL that a NASA engineer named Jack Garman, memorized all the possible error codes of Apollo 11 and saved the mission from being aborted!
8aeMX TIL Pinball was banned beginning in the early 1940s until 1976 in New York City. New York mayor Fiorello La Guardia was responsible for the ban, believing that it robbed school children of their hard earned nickels and dimes.
X0OGX TIL Whitney Houston’s iconic National Anthem performance at the 1991 Super Bowl was lip synced. However the vocal track she used was recorded in a single take.
awvpL TIL NASA never spent $1 Million to develop the space pen. The Fisher Pen company spent $1 million of its own money to make a zero-G pen, which NASA brought for about $6 per pen. The Soviets also switched to pens as they were safer than pencils.
0w8pR TIL after the Pope banned joining the Freemasons in 1738, a group of Catholics started their own secret society named 'The Order of the Pug' in which initiation involved wearing a collar, walking on all fours, pawing at the door to be let in, getting barked at and kissing a pug statue's butt.