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TIL China has banned 'seductive' banana-eating while live-streaming to clamp down on inappropriate and erotic online content

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deK8 TIL that more than 190 concentration camps were built by the fascist Francoists to imprison and kill Spanish Republicans during the Spanish Civil War.
wBJ7 TIL that there are 3000 cities with worse lead levels in their water supply than Flint, MI
N5ke TIL common rocks and hardened clays can trap electrons in quantum pockets for thousands of years and release those electrons when reheated giving off light that can be used to date the rocks-( Thermoluminescence dating).
wL04P TIL that figs are carnivorous
M7XL0 TIL about "Ministerial Responsibility", something which exists in Westminster-style governments, whereby government ministers are expected to resign if waste, corruption or misbehavior has occurred in their part of the government.