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TIL about Tipu's Tiger, a musical instrument from India shaped like a tiger eating a British soldier

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wP9W TIL that bananas are slightly radioactive because of their potassium content and the small amounts of the isotope potassium-40 found in naturally occurring potassium. The banana equivalent dose (B.E.D) of radiation is sometimes used in nuclear communication to compare radiation levels and exposures.
b6v6N TIL Japan's Prime Minister in 1989, Sosuke Uno, was forced to resign after a geisha revealed his infidelity to the public.
EJWd TIL that the feeling we get when we see something so cuddly that we want to squeeze it actually has a name. It’s called “cute aggression”.
OGlKY TIL that when Domino’s Pizza entered the Italian market in 2015, the company had an ambitious plan of opening 880 outlets across the country by 2030. It got as far as opening 29 branches, that were all closed by 2022
LRJZ TIL infamous NYC mobster/hitman Bugsy Siegal offered to kill Nazi leaders Herman Goring and Joseph Goebbels in 1938, only relenting because of a mistresses’ pleas