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TIL George Takei spent two years of his childhood in a Japanese internment camp

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rRWjx TIL that bananas are slightly radioactive due to certain caesium isotopes. Therefore you should never eat more than 600 bananas per second to minimze the risk of a harmful radiation dose.
R7Vl4 TIL that Final Destination (released in 2000) was originally intended to be be an episode of the X-Files
neBg7 TIL there is a 4hr long version of Airport 77 that aired on TBS in 1978. The TBS version remains unreleased in theaters and home media to this day.
KYDm4 TIL In 2014, Swiss Air Force could not intercept a hijacked airplane because the incident happened outside their working hours
em8L TIL that there’s an American family tried to live without anything made in China for one year. They failed.