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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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XEakE TIL Although GPS is free for the world to use, it costs $2 million per day to operate. The money comes from American tax revenue.
oRyjo TIL of Hugo Gernsback. Among other things, The Hugo Awards were named after him. He founded Amazing Stories, the first sci-fi magazine, in 1926. He even received his own Hugo Award in 1960.
rRZVM TIL that spicy food tolerance is genetic
j5Wj TIL William Shatner was so cash strapped after Star Trek was cancelled in 1969 that he ended up living out of his pick up truck.
8ao94 Today I learned that George Jetson was born in 2022. Welcome to the future.