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TIL the banana tree is actually a herb.

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WXVB TIL that when CBS refused to fund the music video for “Beat It,” Michael Jackson filmed the video on LA’s Skid Row, using 80 real members from the Crips and Bloods.
xV9nD TIL Author Robert Howard created Conan the Barbarian and invented the entire 'sword and sorcery' genre. He took care of his sickly mother his entire adult life, never married and barely dated. The day his mother finally died, he he walked out to his car, grabbed a gun, and shot himself in the head.
Qywd TIL There was an ancient philosopher who would often troll people by “living by example.” This included masturbating in public, upon finishing said “If only it was as easy to banish hunger by rubbing the belly…”
A9od TIL Ng Mui, a legendary Shaolin nun, met a teenage girl named Yim Wing-Chun who was being harrassed into marrying a thug and taught her how to defend herself. Hundreds of years later, Bruce Lee would learn what is now called Wing-Chun, a form which was specifically made for a woman by a woman.
bAv9 TIL George Lucas refused to send an original print of Star Wars for preservation at the National Film Registry