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TIL that Bangladesh has a Floating market just for selling Guavas!

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pYD88 TIL the first recorded use of "May the Fourth be with you" was on the day Margaret Thatcher won the 1979 UK General Election. Her party purchased an ad in the news which read "Dear Maggie, May the Fourth Be with You. Your Party Workers."
4Y4o TIL in the 1920s, people feared that crossword puzzles would contribute to illiteracy.
v5P8 TIL: According to the FBI, in 2012 black Americans committed 44% of all murders despite being only 12.61% of the US population. A white American is 223% more likely to be murdered by a black American than a black American is to be murdered by a white American.
VJD TIL that Josef Stalin tried to breed ape-men, with human females and male apes
BgaW TIL that researchers once did an fMRI study showing that a dead salmon demonstrated brain activity when shown a series of photographs. It was done to point out methodological flaws in fMRI research.