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TIL that banana plants can 'walk'

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VMxvp TIL that the banana ketchup is made by a filipino war hero Maria Orosa, who invented 700 recipes,one of which were products invention of processing of canned goods for guerillar warfare. These inventions saved thousands of Filipino and American people trapped in japanese world war II intern camps.
woJp7 TIL that the first Palio di Siena, in its modern form, took place in 1633, but public races organized by the contrade were popular from the 14th century onwards
m1L6P TIL about Iva Toguri D'Aquino, a woman misidentified as ‘Tokyo Rose’ and the only American citizen to be convicted of and pardoned for the crime of treason against the United States of America.
JYklV TIL that between 1945 and the early 1990s, approximately 40,000 Brutalist, alien-looking sculptures called Spomeniks were built all over Yugoslavia. Intended as World War II memorials, some are the size of a 15-story building.
40PX TIL that a man blinded in the Russian Civil War went on to create an Olympic target pistol so radically different that it was banned from competition after 1956 … also Princess Leia used it in Star Wars