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TIL That an average NFL game only has 11 minutes of live gameplay

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5VX8 TIL: Bananas are genetic mutations. Man crossed two varieties of African wild bananas, the Musa acuminata and the Musa baalbisiana, got rid of the many seeds that were an unpleasant presence, and improved the flavor and texture
woDo7 TIL: We still make medications from extracts of human urine
9y0m TIL that Peter Popoff, the con artist who was proven a fraud in the 80s, is still pulling the same scam and making more money than ever.
NJv6 TIL in 1518 there was a ‘Dancing Epidemic’ in France. One woman started dancing in the street and within a month, some 400 people join her, many who later died of heart attacks, strokes, or exhaustion. Nobody knows why it started or why was it popular.
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