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TIL that a bunch of bananas is called a hand and a single banana is called a finger

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LrW9 TIL The little pink part in the inside corner of your eye is left over from when we had an inner eyelid.
vBDL TIL a painting bought by a priest for £400 was revealed on Antiques Roadshow UK to be the work of the 17th Century master Sir Anthony Van Dyck, worth £400,000. The priest was happy to have the extra money to buy new church bells.
Zpx6G TIL that the backup crew for Apollo 12 snuck Playboy pictures into the prime crew’s mission checklist. It also contained geology jokes, such as “observe the protuberances.”
PXXV TIL that physicians within the United States correctly diagnosed 55.3% of easier and 5.8% of more difficult cases
R7ar7 TIL in 1962 a bear was ejected from a B-58 jet bomber at 870 mph to test whether humans could survive supersonic ejections. The bear then floated down via parachute from 35,000 feet over the course of 7 minutes, where it landed unharmed.