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TIL that tea bags are made of banana fibers

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rNpvx TIL that Jean Bedel Bokassa declared himself Emperor of Central Africa, and spent a quarter of the annual state budget on just the coronation alone, while 66% of the country lived on less than $1/day
nNRr TIL that research has shown that “Airplane!” is the funniest movie ever made, clocking in at 3 laughs per minute.
00PL TIL dogs can feel jealousy just like humans
yVAWl TIL the only survivor of a mid-air collision between 2 planes over Amur Oblast (that killed her husband & 36 others) fell 5,220 meters while holding onto a piece of the plane. After waiting 2 days in the woods with fractures to her arms, ribs & spine, she began to walk on the 3rd & found rescuers.
MevJA TIL that the population of the Inishkea Islands (in Ireland) was until recently unaware of Christianity and the English language, worshipping a magical stone regularly “re-clothed” by a priestess. A catholic priest cast the stone into the sea in the 1890s, then a storm left the islands abandoned.