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TIL Banana peels are edible.

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9YoR7 TIL the dark meaning of This Little Piggy. “Went to market” (the meat market), “stayed home” (not ready for market), “ate roast beef” (fattening for market), “had none” (too young for fattening)
19P TIL That in October 2002, four months before the US invasion of Iraq, Iraqi Vice President Taha Yassin Ramadan suggested U.S. President George W. Bush and Saddam Hussein settle their difference in a duel.
gZ9b TIL in ancient Persia, engineers built a type of evaporative cooler that could store ice, even in the middle of summer. It is called a Yakhchal.
gMPDb TIL when Sitting Bull was touring with Buffalo Bill’s Wild West show, he was so impressed with Annie Oakley’s shooting abilities and charmed by her character that he gave her the name “Little Sure Shot” and symbolically adopted her as his daughter.
x6nDg TIL the same man, Thurl Arthur Ravenscroft, who sang (uncredited) "You're A Mean One, Mr Grinch" in the original animated TV special "How the Grinch Stole Christmas," was also the voice of Tony the Tiger of Kellogg's Frosted Flakes mascot fame, for decades.