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TIL almost all bananas we eat today are clones of each other

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pZ5G TIL Between the 13th and 18th Centuries it was common to have criminal trials with animal defendants. Animals on trial were most often pigs, bulls, horses, and cows or pests such as rats and weevils. They were routinely provided with lawyers and if convicted animals were executed or exiled.
6aMm TIL that Roger Waters believes the song “The Phantom of the Opera” is plagiarized from Pink Floyd’s “Echoes,” but that “life’s too long to bother with suing Andrew fucking Lloyd Webber.”
EpQP TIL George Orwell, author of Animal Farm and 1984, was an outspoken Democratic Socialist
KRw4 TIL a US nuclear submarine that sank in deep water in 1968 is still resting at the bottom of the sea at a known location. Its nuclear reactor and nuclear weapons have never been recovered.
oBYB7 TIL that Nick Newton, the inventor of the starting block, had no athletic experience and was a heavy smoker until his forties. After his daughter became involved in track, he became a Masters sprinter and set records even after surviving testicular cancer