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TIL Bananas are the world's oldest fruit
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TIL that the sides of a pentagon, a hexagon, and a decagon, each inscribed in congruent circles, will form a right triangle, which is also half of a golden rectangle!
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TIL that the 90’s comedy sitcom “Dinosaurs” ended with them creating a nuclear winter and then freezing to death.
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TIL that Napoleon used to fight with one of his classmates at the Military Academy of Paris (Sidney Smith). Then at 1799 during the Siege of Acre Sidney Smith meet Napoleon again but now in battlefield, where Napoleon was defeated.
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TIL that Louis Armstrong always wore a Star of David as an homage to a Jewish family that took him in when he was young and gave him his first horn
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TIL that several states have ruled Breathalyzer machines inadmissible as evidence in prosecution due to them being unreliable, improperly calibrated, etc. This has been a multi year/decade problem and people knew. The manufacturers also are shady.