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TIL Parents who constantly argue can stunt their children's growth. There's link between a reduced growth rate and a stressful upbringing. A study showed traumatic childhood experiences have a serious effect on later health, causing disease and, in some cases, permanent stunting.

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b8x7 TIL that the reason today’s artificial banana flavoring for candy tastes so differently than an actual banana is because it is based on the Gros Michel Banana, which was nearly wiped out in the 50’s due to a fungus. The bananas we eat today are from the Cavendish family.
MNrB TIL Martin Luther King Jr. was wiretapped and sent an anonymous letter from J Edgar Hoover encouraging him to kill himself
yYZJ TIL that over 20 percent of all calories collectively consumed by humanity are from a single food… rice
EOPP TIL: Sophie Scholl was a German woman executed by the Nazis for distributing anti-Nazi pamphlets. Her last words were: “How can we expect righteousness to prevail when there is hardly anyone willing to offer themselves up individually for a righteous cause? Such a fine, sunny day, and I have to go.”
XEJ1k TIL that researchers at the University of Manchester have trained a regal jumping spider named “Kim” to leap on demand for a robotics research in 2018. First time a spider has been successfully trained to jump.