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TIL M&M’s stands for Mars and Murrie’s

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7AVX TIL that all bananas (or nearly all) consumed in the United States are picked very green, then ‘flash ripened’ by exposing them to ethylene gas. I also learned (see wiki in 1st comment) that ethylene is the most-used organic compound in industry.
m1JbP TIL that while sloths only poop about once a week, it is responsible for 50% of all their deaths as this is the time where they are vulnerable to predators
KY0XE TIL that when Cyclone Olivia struck Australia in 1996, an anemometer recorded a wind gust to 254 mph (408 km/hr). This is the fastest non-tornadic surface windspeed ever observed on Earth.
MeenK TIL that the fungus that turns ants into zombies and eventually sprouts out of them, doesn't control their brain. It's actually builds fabric around their muscles and controls them, leaving the brain healthy and in tact, up until to the moment of death
78pkr TIL The star Betelgeuse has been recorded since Chinese antiquity, with notes of the star then being yellow, by the time of Ptolemy it was orange, and now red. The star is the tenth brightest in the sky and expected to go supernova in the next 100,000 years.