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TIL that separating bananas slows down ripening process
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TIL all of Oklahoma's "Unassigned Lands" were settled in one day. At high noon on April 22, 1889, approx. 50k settlers lined up, and a starting gunshot was fired. They raced chaotically to claim the lands (taken back from Indigenous tribes), and by the end of the day, nearly 2M acres were claimed
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TIL there are 35 possible dates that Easter can land on, some of which don't repeat for hundreds of years at a time. Nearly 1 out of every 10 calendar dates has been or will be Easter.
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TIL the Burger King commercial song (Whopper Whopper Whopper Whopper Junior Double Triple Whopper, etc.) was based on a similar 1974 Burger King commercial "Have it your way"
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TIL Several BP and Transocean executives were on board Deepwater Horizon during the catastrophic explosion. A few of their intentions included maintenance planning, presenting a safety campaign, and congratulating the senior staff of the rig for 7 years of operations without a lost time incident.
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TIL bed bugs do not engage in courtship rituals; rather, their method of mating is known as traumatic insemination. In this process, a male bed bug will climb onto a female and use his hypodermic penis to puncture the side of her body, depositing his sperm into her body cavity...