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Til about blue java bananas that can survive the harshest of weathers and taste like vanilla ice cream.

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9YjDX TIL about Alexander Cumming, an inventor and the first person to patent a flush toilet in 1775. Cumming included an s-trap in the design to prevent sewer gasses from entering the building through the toilet. Modern toilets still incorporate this design.
LQQDZ TIL when a defense lawyer tries to confuse the jury and court, rather than refute the prosecution case, this is known as the 'Chewbacca defense'.
0wvZN TIL when the Vatican Archives published records on the Templar Order, it showed that the Inquisition had discovered the Templars were not heretics, but in fact a knighthood for homosexuals. The Pope decided to close the knighthood "for the good of the church" when this discovery was made.
kOvDB TIL Concerned about the number of cobras in Delhi, British colonial officials created a bounty, only to discover secret cobra farms created to collect the bounty. When the officials shut down the program the farms released their snakes, meaning they had far more cobras than before they started.
QJoje TIL that astrophysicists use the word "spaghettification" to describe what happens to matter that is dropped through a black hole.