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TIL there are more than 1,000 types of bananas in the world!

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MWBm TIL that in 1979 a group of farmers in China decided to split up their communal land to individual families in secret. They signed a contract and the plan was a massive Success and was a future model for the rest of China.
x605w TIL in the US there was an "oyster craze" of the late 1800s and early 1900s. Due to advances in oyster farm technology, between 1880 and 1910, as many as 160 million pounds of oysters were harvested a year, and in 1909 the price per pound fell to less than half of beef.
jNa0Q TIL That starving male humans can sense the Earths geomagnetic field when under blue light and with a previous food association. The mechanism is unknown but thought to be entangled radical pairs in the eye.
PYxdJ TIL Ocho de Plata, the Spanish Dollar, was the first legal tender in the United States until the Coinage Act of 1857. In fact, equity shares were still quoted in eighths of a dollar until 2001; this was a legacy from the coin’s divisibility by 8, since each Spanish Dollar was worth 8 reales.
mxXmx TIL Brain zaps are sensations that people sometimes feel when they stop taking certain medications, especially antidepressants. They’re often described as feeling like brief electric jolts to the head that sometimes radiate to other body parts. Others describe it as like the brain briefly shivers