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TIL of the ‘Banana massacre’ in 1928, where up to 3000 striking workers where killed by colombian forces, after the US threatened to invade if they would not protect american interests.

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4XgwN TIL Babylonian women had to, by law, consort with 1 stranger who threw a silver coin into their lap while they sat in the "District of Venus". As Babylonian women were usually tall and beautiful, some uglier women had to wait up to 4 years for their coin, before returning home.
b6R89 TIL that blueberries (and cranberries) are true berries, produced from a single ovary with non permeable skin. Raspberries, blackberries, and strawberries, on the other hand, whose tissue holds hundreds of ovaries with permeable surfaces, are made up of smaller fruits.
m1gRo TIL that since the 19th century the average human body temperature has decreased by as much as 1 degree F°
KOG0J TIL that Hawaii's state bird, a goose known locally as the nēnē, was at one point down to a population of only 30 in the wild. After 60 years of conservation efforts to restore the population, the nēnē have rebounded and there are now roughly 2,800 birds roaming the islands.
AD5PB TIL that during the heyday of The Sopranos FBI wiretaps of the real mafia revealed that the show was so realistic the real mobsters thought there was a connected guy feeding story lines for the show