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TIL in 1963 A&W was the first chain restaurant to offer the Bacon Cheeseburger

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5YM99 TIL that some Ghanaians hire dancing pallbearers to carry the coffin during funerals
8aLJX TIL that bananas do not grow on trees. The banana plant is specifically classified as an arborescent (a tree-like) perennial herb making banana a berry.
axQJ TIL when Astronaut Ed Mitchell was asked what it’s like to stand on the moon, he said: “From out there on the moon, international politics look so petty. You want to grab a politician by the scruff of the neck and drag him a quarter of a million miles out and say, ‘Look at that, you son of a bitch.’
5YgE9 TIL that the US Navy has been training dolphins to carry out military tasks such as locating underwater mines and flagging enemy swimmers since the 1960's