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TIL bananas are facing extinction due to a fungal disease

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DQOwg TIL about the 1884 election. Grover Cleveland should have had an easy path to office, but then the scandal broke. He was accused of fathering a child out of wedlock and abandoning the mother. As a result, he won by a razor-thin margin of just 1,047 votes, or 0.09% of all votes cast in the state.
b950Z TIL that pumping water from the ground causes the ground to contract. Areas with high well usage can lose dozens and dozens of feet of elevation due to this "land subsidence".
9LBD TIL if an odd number of golfers make the cut at the Masters, they have a member named Jeff Knox fill in, who has bet against and beaten some of the best golfers in the world
l7NV7 TIL: Nearly 7% of American newspaper employees now work at the NYTimes
rRkm0 TIL that "Home Alone" has become a Christmas tradition in Poland, where it's known as "Kevin Sam w Domu" (literally "Kevin Alone in the House"), with Polish TV channels repeatedly airing the film around Christmas Eve for the last 25 years.