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TIL Chiquita Banana used to be called “United Fruit Company” And caused something called “The Banana Massacre”.

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OoP84 TIL Charles Darwin, while working on a book about orchids, was frustrated and wrote in a letter to his friend “But I am very poorly today and very stupid and hate everybody and everything”
ZQpD TIL that lightning can cause red, jellyfish-shaped flashes as big as 48 by 48 km to appear above thunderclouds. These are called sprites (air spirits), after their elusiveness, and are actually clusters of balls of plasma.
9wMGp TIL in 1966 Woody Allen boxed a kangaroo on British TV
D9MV TIL Samuel L. Jackson once held Martin Luther King. SR hostage at Morehouse College. He was convicted of felony Unlawful Confinement.
x5b TIL: Ayn Rand’s intellectual heir earns lots of money based on publishing her unpublished works. Which is essentially, living off the words of another. And not Objectivism.