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TIL that 3 banana companies overthrew the government of Honduras.

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EgJpV TIL in an unusual case of atavism, there is only one recorded case in medical literature of a congenital os penis AKA baculum. The baculum is otherwise absent from humans (where erection is achieved and sustained through blood pressure) though it is present in the other great apes.
MNEb TIL there’s an alarm clock that donates your money to charities/political parties that you disapprove of every time you hit the snooze button.
XEDEE TIL that San Diego Zoo maintains a so-called "frozen zoo", a facility in which they preserve DNA from rare and near-extinct species
n1ob TIL there’s a Russian version of Winnie the Pooh, “Vinni Puh.” In this version, Piglet has a gun, and even shoots Pooh in one of the episodes.
Me597 TIL there's a species of freshwater seal and they exist only around one lake in Russia.