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TIL wild bananas are full of seeds and the ones we eat have been specially bred over the years to be seedless

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YQaP TIL the Canadian $100 banknote featured an Asian woman on the back using a microscope. People complained that it was stereotyping Asians as being good at technology. She was replaced with a Caucasian woman, and then more people complained that Caucasians were being favoured.
78Lmx TIL Graham Norton auditioned for a part in The Lord of the Rings.
1aX4X TIL LBJ as VP "invited" a Pakistani camel cart driver named Bashir Sarban to the White House. Though he said it as a formality, the governments of both the US and Pakistan made it happen. LBJ and Bashir had a meal at the Johnson ranch outside Dallas, and Bashir toured the country over a week.
wj9Y TIL: A 480 inch tall “skyscraper” which defrauded investors thought was to be 480 feet tall was built in Texas in 1919 and it still stands.
X8Nj TIL the chemical composition of emotional tears differs from those secreted due to irritation (such as tears caused by onions). Emotional tears include more protein-based hormones such as prolactin and leucine enkephalin, a natural painkiller that acts as the mechanism that allows one to feel better