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TIL that banana trees aren’t actually trees, but giant herbs

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oBye7 TIL In 1967 a 13 year-old Ohio teen rode his single speed bicycle 530 miles to the World's Fair in Montreal, Canada.
loeMK TIL that both men and women laugh more at men than at women
1Ovd TIL that Jim Abbott, a Major League Baseball pitcher for 10 years, not only won a gold medal in the 1988 Olympics, but also pitched a no-hitter against the Cleveland Indians in 1993 and was elected to the College Baseball Hall of Fame in 2007, all while only having one hand.
L8ym TIL that nuclear power is essentially steam power. The nuclear rods create steam which turns the turbine.