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TIL Radiation is often measured as “banana equivalent doses,” where 1 dose is the amount of radioactivity in a banana.

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6EKrw Today I learned that a lot of vanilla flavoring are made using coal tar
e01QE TIL that the Quran references Jesus's mother Mary 70 times and holds her in very high regard, identifying her as the greatest of all women
xV4J7 TIL that Betty White's television career has gone on for so long that her first job was in 1939 and involved singing songs on one of the first experimental TV channels
oB9J7 TIL Mary Kay Bergman, the woman who voiced Daphne in Scooby-Doo and all the female characters on South Park, committed suicide via shotgun.
9YR4r TIL that the seven-colour rainbow flag is used by many cultures and movements - the native people of the Andes, the city of Cusco (Peru), the Jewish Autonomous Oblast (a Russian region bordering China), the shrine of Indian guru Meher Baba, and the international peace movement