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TIL We're All Bananas! Well, Mostly, 60% of our genes are identical with bananas.

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Z8LRR TIL North Korea started to attempt to emulate certain aspects of China’s economic reform policies in 1980s, but both Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il felt great hostility toward China after Deng Xiaoping launched China on the path of pursuing market-oriented “socialism with Chinese characteristics”
pYjrG TIL That, in 1985, Jessica Lange was invited to testify before Congress about the farm crisis solely based on her producing and starring in the dramatic film 'Country' which was about the farm crisis.
gMnRb TIL there are PTSD service dogs who wake veterans up from nightmares, alert of high blood pressure or cortisol levels in the blood, dial suicide hotlines & 911 on a dog-friendly phone, and more.
VrJ8 TIL Physics dictate that unless otherwise contained a river will never flow straight for a distance greater than 10 times its width. It has to do with the center flowing faster and the friction induced by the banks.
R5V18 TIL up until the late '80s, gin rummy tournaments flourished, drawing as many as 400 competitors. Even nongamblers have heard of the World Series of Poker, but few outside the gin rummy community know annual gin tournaments currently award hundreds of thousands of dollars in prize money.