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TIL China has banned ‘seductive’ banana-eating while live-streaming to clamp down on inappropriate and erotic online content

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OGEva TIL that major American ballet companies generate roughly 40% of their annual ticket sale revenues from repeated performances of Tchaikovsky's "The Nutcracker" around Christmas.
89Ya TIL Texans at the Alamo were fighting for certain freedoms and a more liberal judicial system. One of the freedoms they were seeking was the right to own slaves, prohibited under Mexican law.
PYEBg TIL that none of the actors in the infamous “War of the Worlds” radio broadcast from 1938 intended for the citizens of America to take it as seriously as they did, considering that many of the scripts were improvised and most of the sound effects came from houseware items
l7EoV TIL that cows actually only have one stomach, but it has four different compartments to it, so you will hear them being described as having four stomachs. Each compartment (rumen, reticulum, omasum, abomasum) is used for a different stage of their digestive process.
PYgaL TIL duct tape is a recognized & effective treatment for common warts like verrucas. In blind clinical trials duct tape removed warts completely 85% of the time. The success rate for cryogenic treatments was 60%.