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TIL that banana trees aren’t actually trees, but giant herbs
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TIL that in the 1980s the Naval Investigative Service undertook a massive and futile search for a woman named “Dorothy” in the Chicago area, after hearing gay men refer to themselves as “friends of Dorothy”. They believed she was at the center of a ring of gay military personnel.
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TIL of the Pig War between the US and Canada over disputed territory in Washington and BC. The only casualty was the pig.
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TIL there is an informal strategy called the “small penis rule” used by fiction writers to avoid libel suits by writting the character like the real person but with a small penis so nobody claims the character represents them
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TIL: Ernest Hemingway hunted U Boats and Submarines on his fishing boat with grenades and machine guns.
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TIL Christopher Lee not only was a huge Tolkien fan as far back as when the books were written but he actively shaped his career so that he could play a wizard when the films are eventually made.