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TIL That unlike other fish, monkfish is not kosher.

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RY8 TIL that comedian Dick Shawn suffered a massive heart attack onstage and died because the audience thought it was part of his act.
lbo1 TIL at the end of the 2002 Spider-Man game Peter Parker, after kissing Mary Jane, speaks to the player and says “Looks like you’re done here. Go outside and play”.
AN01g TIL CBS was fined $272,000 because Young Sheldon misused the Emergency Alert System tone signals in an episode showing a tornado warning, which is illegal to use outside a real warning, and since the EAS was made in 1997 while Young Sheldon takes place in the early 90s, this usage was anachronistic
lmY5 TIL of Robert H Lawrence Jr. a Major in the USAF, he was the first black man to be trained as an astronaut, however, he died in a plane crash during flight training and never made it to space.
JLG1 TIL wild bananas are full of seeds and the ones we eat have been specially bred over the years to be seedless