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TIL LaWanda Page, whom Red Foxx often insulted for her looks on Sanford and Son, began her career as a fire-breathing night club dancer

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16GNV TIL About 7000 years ago, bananas were not the seedless, fleshy fruits we know today. The flesh was pitted with black seeds and nearly inedible
vyxR TIL Birmingham (UK) Has more miles of canal than Venice, and any other City in the world.
WkEg9 TIL Ben Franklin, while feuding with Titan Leeds, used astrology to predict his death and published this in the Poor Richards Almanac, and when Leeds didn't die on that date, referred to him as "the ghost of Titan Leeds" thereafter and encouraged him to pass on.
eK4 TIL that there used to be a company that you could use to print your business cards on beef jerky.
9w6OM TIL that the Hawaiian alphabet has only 13 letters: A, E, H, I, K, L, M, N, O, P, U, W, and ʻokina, which represents a glottal stop.