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TIL Bananas glow blue under black lights.

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jNL8E TIL if the film Something's Got to Give was released, Marilyn Monroe would've had the first topless scene in mainstream cinema.
xYbD TIL Scientists discovered in 2015 that Boa Constrictors kill their prey by cutting off their blood supply, not by suffocation like it was originally assumed.
lEJ5 TIL water buffalo that graze on opium poppies become “docile as lambs” and withdrawn from the herd. After the harvest, they suffer from tremors and convulsions - withdrawal symptoms
7GZx TIL the brain registers the anticipation of math—but crucially, not math itself as physical pain.
WkrGL TIL due to laws enacted following the decades-long Japanese occupation of Korea, It is illegal to broadcast Japanese music and television dramas over terrestrial signals in South Korea to this day.