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TIL that banana plants can 'walk'

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BgvLx TIL as our brains develop from age 4 to 36, we tend to judge perpetrators less severely, as we make more room for accidental causes and other circumstantial factors.
VBoW4 TIL In China’s Han dynasty (206 BC – 24 AD), the highly prized and gentle pandas graced the gardens of the emperors. Pandas were believed to have mystical powers.
ANKWn TIL that 7Up used to contain lithium (a mood stabiliser used to treat mental health conditions)
jQjN TIL the FBI used mail delivery robots in their field offices that navigated the buildings by using cells of black lights to follow an invisible fluorescent paint sprayed onto the carpet to designate its route.
mxkgx TIL in 1961 Judy Garland became the first woman to win the Grammy Award for Album of the Year for her LIVE recording, "Judy at Carnegie Hall", and in 1962, at the age of 39, she became the first woman (and youngest person ever) to receive the Cecil B. DeMille Award for Lifetime Achievement in film.