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TIL that when Under Siege was released, it became the highest-grossing movie to have no advance screenings for critics.

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exWk TIL that in 1910 two young boys(6 and 10) took a trip from Oklahoma to Manhattan on horseback completely alone.
DjJV TIL the common banana doesn’t have seeds because it has 3 copies of DNA. An odd number doesn’t split evenly when forming progeny, so the result is a seedless fruit. Seedless watermelon, grapes, etc also have an odd number of copies of DNA.
M7mgb TIL that the city of Troy (located in present-day Turkey) was repeatedly rebuilt after being destroyed, with 11 iterations discovered. The last iteration was a Roman city built as a tourist destination to capitalise on the links to mythic tradition.
JYbMk TIL about cross dominance where each hand is better at different activities. Ex: being a lefty when writing but preferring the right hand for throwing a ball etc.
rRNg4 TIL that during the My Lai massacre, which resulted in more than three hundred Vietnamese civilian casualties by the American forces, there were three soldiers that tried to halt the attack and save women and children. The three were denounced as traitors by some of the Congressmen.