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TIL: Muscles can only pull and cannot push.

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L9bp TIL about Tanya Savicheva a young girl trapped in the Seige of Leningrad. She kept a diary of the names of each family member that died, ending with a final entry for herself: “The Savichevas are dead Everyone is dead Only Tanya is left”
wLnYP TIL that for 25 years, two brothers re-gifted each other the same pair of pants, in increasingly inventive and difficult packaging, including a 600lb safe, a double-glazed window, a 16-foot rocket ship, and a crushed car, with a card that read "Merry Christmas, the pants are in the glove box".
GAYAE TIL - Bananas are curved because they are negatively geotropic; they curve upwards to break through the banana leaf canopy to reach sunlight!
mwao TIL Bayer sold HIV and Hepatitis C contaminated blood products which caused up to 10,000 people in the U.S. alone to contract HIV. After they found out the drug was contaminated, they pulled it off the U.S. market and sold it to countries in Asia and Latin America so they could still make money.
rYYy TIL Blackbeard’s flag depicted a skeleton spearing a heart while toasting the devil.