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TIL Challenger Deep, the deepest-known point on Earth was accidentally discovered on history's first major scientific expedition devoted to oceanography in 1875.

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nejor TIL the land the department store chain Macy's owns is worth more ($16 billion) than the company itself ($6.4 billion)
Z87Bo TIL The guy who manipulated the fashion industry to make green the “in” color in 1934 just to sell more Lucky Strike cigarettes is also the guy who made Bacon & Eggs a typical American breakfast!
gMmx7 TIL that bananas have no seeds as they are a sterile hybrid between two species (Musa acuminata and Musa balbisiana), and the production of seeds is not necessary to get the fruit. As the plant can only reproduce through cloning, all the bananas in a package are usually clones of the same banana
4Xvwg TIL that before killing targets involved in the 1972 Munich Massacre, MOSSAD agents would send flowers with a condolence card reading: "A reminder we do not forget we do not forgive" to their families
mkGY TIL Steve Jobs ate at his biological father’s restaurant, who years later boasted to Mona Simpson (Steve’s sister) about it, having no idea that Steve was his son.