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TIL a banana is a berry

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WJlN TIL that 40 people die each year from shark attacks. 2500 die each year from using products intended for right-handed people despite being lefties.
KYL66 TIL that, while not very common, German-speaking countries have vomit sinks in a very, very few amount of clubs, bars, frat houses and supervised injection sites for drug users called a few different names such as Speibecken or Kotzbecken
yQ5Ol TIL Jason Everman the guitarist that was kicked out of Nirvana and Soundgarden went on to become a special forces war hero.
wow4W TIL in the early 1990s Amsterdam airport came up with an ingenious design “to etch an image of a black house fly” to reduce spillage in men’s wall mounted urinals. The result: spillage was 80% reduced. Lesson learnt- If you give men a target, it turns out, they can’t help but aim at it.
dDeEK TIL about a "ghost boat" that disappeared in 2014 with 243 people aboard. No trace has ever been found.