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TIL that Harrison Ford was a stagehand for The Doors.

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v1nJD TIL research found that 94% of British people said they had conversed about the weather in the past six hours, and 38% said they had in the past 60 minutes. This means at any moment in the UK, a third of the population is either talking about the weather, has already done so or are about to do so.
DjJV TIL the common banana doesn’t have seeds because it has 3 copies of DNA. An odd number doesn’t split evenly when forming progeny, so the result is a seedless fruit. Seedless watermelon, grapes, etc also have an odd number of copies of DNA.
Wka99 TIL that metal eyelets allowed for corsets to be tightened further than before in Victorian England. So much so it would displace organs.
a8YQ0 TIL El Salvador was ranked as one of the world's safest countries in 2023.
v1P1D TIL that Ivanpah, a solar electric generating system inadvertently created a solar death ray and has killed a lot of birds.