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TIL that scientists have discovered a breed of banana which is immune to the fungus threatening the current kind of banana

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7glP TIL Stalin’s real last name was Dzhugashvili. Stalin is Russian for Man of Steel.
XEeRQ TIL Daniel Day-Lewis, on receiving his 2008 Oscar presented by Helen Mirren (who won an Oscar for playing the Queen,) said "That's the closest I'll come to ever getting a knighthood." He was knighted 6 years later.
7rdKM TIL "Mad" Mike Hughes died after crashing in his homemade steam powered rocket. He launched from the California desert and hoped to reach the Kármán Line, where Earth's atmosphere meets outer space 62 miles above the ground to prove that the Earth is a flat disk and not a sphere.
gOWL TIL that the US has had 75 school shootings since the Columbine Massacre in 1999. The rest of the world has only had 30 combined
ZJlp TIL that 2003 was likely “the first time an automatic weapon had been fired in a crime in Britain.”