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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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xVejo TIL In Weird Al's White & Nerdy music video Jordan Peele and Keegan-Michael Key are the two "gangsters" who are scared away by Yankovic's nerdiness in the beginning of the video.
BLke TiL: In one season of the Dutch version of “Survivor,” the men and women were split and given their own islands. At the end of 8 days, the men had a “Cafe on the beach,” while the women were stealing from each other and had not yet built a hut; the women approved of a tribe merger.
wdmE TIL that almost everything about Koko the gorilla’s signing ability is a hoax. Her signs are nearly gibberish, and her handlers “interpret” everything she says and try to construct meaning from them. She has zero support from scientists and linguists for this reason.
awgbN TIL of James Martin Stagg, a meteorologist for the allies in WW2 tasked with finding the day with the right conditions for the D-Day invasion. His team and him predicted that the weather would clear up on June 6th, which the Germans didn’t predict. He was right and D-Day was successful.
yVLBa TIL that, Some species of pearlfish have chosen an interesting shelter: inside the anus of a sea cucumber.