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TIL bananas would not be nearly as available to most of the world if banana-pickers were paid a livable wage.

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A76a TIL Obsidian blades are so sharp (3 nm thickness) that, on a cellular level, obsidian knives will cut between cells rather than tear the cells as steel knives would do
xJg TIL until the 18th century we had a “single-sex” view of the two bodies, where women were simply cold, “underdeveloped” men, whose penises never dropped. The vagina was an “inside-out penis,” and both men and women produced semen.
X0oX8 TIL that puttanesca means whore
e01Gg TIL that 'sea level' is not exactly the same everywhere in the world. For instance, the absolute water level height is higher along the West Coast of the United States than the East Coast.
J1rAQ TIL that Wilhelm Furtwängler, a leading German conductor, called Hitler a "hissing street pedlar" and an "enemy of the human race". He also refused to give the Nazi salute, wrote public letters denouncing antisemitism, and once got into a shouting match with Hitler over Nazi cultural policy.