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TIL bananas are radioactive
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TIL that St Jude’s Hospital, which has treated thousands of children with cancer, is not religiously affiliated, and instead was founded by actor Danny Thomas because of a promise to the patron saint of lost causes after he found success in Hollywood
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TIL there is an animated film based on Titanic that was so bad, one reviewer described as "offensive to the Titanic’s memory"
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TIL the final words of writer Roald Dahl, were almost: “You know, I’m not frightened. It’s just that I will miss you all so much” to his family. After appearing to fall unconscious the nurse then injected him with morphine to ease his passing, he uttered his actual last words: “Ow, fuck!”
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TIL that Nobel laureate Stanley Prusiner who discovered prions, an infectious protein in the brain, was attacked by both the scientific establishment and the media when he presented his ideas due to the thinking that an infectious protein would be impossible.
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TIL pitcher plants can "taste" their prey and adjust their digestive juices. Sarracenia purpurea senses what it catches—like proteins or DNA—and tweaks the mix of enzymes it releases to digest it. This helps the plant save energy by only making what it needs.