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TIL bananas are radioactive

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R50x8 TIL Mario Puzo, the author of the Godfather books and the film adaptations, lacked experience in screenwriting. After winning two Oscars, he purchased a book on screenwriting to educate himself and found an intriguing piece of advice in the first chapter: "Study Godfather I"
XvYk TIL that a man’s home was being foreclosed and the bank wouldn’t let him sell it. He responded by spending 2 weeks tearing down the $350K home he built.
vBvB TIL that the cost of America’s wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, have cost $6 trillion, or $75,000 for every American household.
E58V TIL L. Ron Hubbard was asked at a science fiction convention about making money as a SciFi writer and his response was “You don’t get rich writing science fiction. If you want to get rich, you start a religion.”
0aby TIL the NFL’s New York Jets shipped 350 rolls of toilet paper to London, England, for their clash with the Miami Dolphins. A Jets intern, who had been to London numerous times, had stated ‘the toilet paper was very thin because their plumbing isn’t as good’, so the Jets brought their own.