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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.

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mvry TIL Sunflowers can be used to clean up radioactive waste (they are able to extract pollutants, including radioactive metal contaminants, through their roots and store them in the stems and leaves. Making them the international symbol of nuclear disarmament).
x6NXb TIL the survivors of a wrecked whaling ship were so afraid of non-existent cannibals on much closer pacific islands that they chose to sail a considerably larger distance. This resulted in only five of seventeen surviving and, ironically, the survivors resorting to cannibalism.
E0Lp TIL in the ‘60s and '70s it was common for young boys with micropenises to be given sex reassignment surgery and raised as girls
mBkR TIL: Lord Farquaad, the villain in Shrek, was based on Disney’s Michael Eisenberg after he fired eventual Dreamworks founder Jeffrey Katzenberg.
neAOo TIL about Christina the Astonishing, a 12th century holy woman whose miracles included having her breasts flow with a clear oil which she used to feed herself and cure her wounds while in captivity.