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TIL bananas are radioactive

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e6kE TIL that once the Babylonians could predict when solar eclipses would occur, they would install a substitute king during this period. As they believed that these eclipses were an evil omen, this substitute king could be blamed. (He usually was killed after - of course making the omen true.)
P9xJ TIL if you search “do the harlem shake” on Youtube, you get a cool surprise thanks to Google
YpA8r TIL that McDonalds Coca-Cola taste different because it is sent to McDonalds in Stainless Steel containers instead of bags like most restaurants
Z8k6p TIL of the Asch conformity experiments, which demonstrated how social pressure can change even our perception of seemingly objective facts.
YpKwZ TIL Loudest sounds