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TIL bananas used to have seeds. Kind of obvious in retrospect, but that is TIL in a nut shell.

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Y7yDd TIL there are depictions of Knights engaging Snails in battle drawn in the margins of late 13th century medieval written works like song & prayer books, & even papal letters. They include man-sized snails, snails hovering in mid air, & man/snail hybrids ridden by rabbits. Their origins are a mystery
m1aoR TIL Nuclear Bombs Made It Possible to Carbon Date Human Tissue
1aVBX TIL that after nesting, Australian magpies will just start attacking people. Due to the bird being a protected species, people have gotten creative in finding ways to protect themselves.
epl4g TIL The 1st, 2nd and 5th deadliest wildfires in recorded history all happened on the same day in different places in the United States.
x6Nd5 TIL that Ferrari's iconic red color, 'Rosso Corsa', was originally mandated by racing regulations. In the early days of motorsport, international racing organizations assigned specific colors to represent different countries, Italy was given red.