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TIL that in 1998 grade school children in Aurora, Colorado, collect $35,000 to purchase and free slave children in Sudan.

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R5rWl TIL Jenette Goldstein played Vasquez in Aliens and John Conner's Stepmom in Terminator 2
Wk58d TIL of Ghulam Dastagir, a Stationmaster who refused to leave his post during the Bhopal Gas Tragedy, & prevented any trains from stopping at the station, saving thousands of lives even as his colleagues were dead and he himself spent 2 decades in and out of hospital due to long exposure to the Gas
9VO7 TIL The bananas we buy in stores and supermarkets are genetically identical clones, all descended from one banana. These bananas are seedless and sterile; natural bananas are short, fat, and have huge seeds.
69QoQ TIL about the only double barrel cannon in the world. When it was its first tested during the American Civil War, the chain snapped immediately and one ball tore into a nearby cabin, knocking down its chimney; the other spun off erratically and struck a nearby cow, killing it instantly.
vPb8r TIL Bananas glow blue under black lights.