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TIL bananas are radioactive

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DkBJ TIL the blackberry plants growing all over Seattle and the West Coast are all the fault of gardening fanatic Luther Burbank
GdA7 TIL A Vancouver police officer pretended to be disabled and brain-injured from a motorcycle accident and borrowed a wheelchair to work undercover in an impoverished neighborhood. He waited for someone to assault or rob him but instead people approached him by donating food and spare change
4kdpb TIL: There is a place in Australia called Mount Disappointment, the peak offered the early explorers a disappointing view and a groin injury was involved in the climb.
5Vdkr TIL that Exeter Cathedral in England has a cat door that was carved in 1598; the cats were employed to keep down the population of mice, who came into the cathedral because the gears of clock were greased with animal fat
MepdV TIL of George Trepal of Polk County Florida. A recluse & an oddball, he poisoned his neighbors, killing the mother, by tampering bottles of Coke with thallium in 1988. He was irritated by loud music & noises by the teenage sons, the reason for doing the poisoning. He is awaiting the death row.