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TIL Dole sued and threatened everybody they could to make sure the documentary Bananas!* would not be shown to the public.

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8ekEX TIL a very small proportion of people have two copies of a mutant form of the CCR5 gene, which makes them greatly resistant to acquiring HIV / AIDS.
kOp87 TIL: Ohio class submarines have the potential to carry more firepower than most nations combined
MGLb TIL the pallbearers at Billy Mays’ funeral wore blue shirts and khaki pants in tribute.
aw01N TIL that when Spanish explorers found the Yucatán Peninsula, they asked what the area was called. The response was "Yucatán" which means "I don't understand what you are saying".
0dQJy TIL a dog survived the crash of American Airlines Flight 965, when the 757 crashed into a mountain in Buga, Columbia, killing 151 of the 155 passengers onboard.