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TIL the common banana doesn’t have seeds because it has 3 copies of DNA. An odd number doesn’t split evenly when forming progeny, so the result is a seedless fruit. Seedless watermelon, grapes, etc also have an odd number of copies of DNA.

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xVD67 TIL a dead girl was found in the River Seine in France in the 1880s. The coroner was so infatuated with her that he took a mold of her face. Her face became a morbid fascination and many copies were made. When the first CPR dummy was made, it used her face and has since continued to.
ZkGG TIL it is common in china for drivers who have accidentally hit pedestrians to drive over them again to kill them, because they pay less restitution that way.
b9nY7 TIL a woman disappeared while working on a Disney cruise ship. It was believed she was assaulted & then thrown overboard. Disney seemingly covered it up, destroying evidence & lying to her family about what happened.
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wLbZM TIL C.W. Post created Grapenuts (purported to cure appendicitis) after visiting a sanitarium run by John Harvey Kellogg. Post later developed appendicitis himself and, after not obtaining relief from surgery, died of a self inflicted gunshot wound.