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TIL: Bananas are curved because they grow towards the sun

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9YNd7 TIL that before the 20th Century the word “computer” meant a person who performed large mathematical calculations by hand.
YpRp7 TIL a 71 year old man has 29 college degrees and is working towards obtaining more
pXy8 TIL after Mao received mangoes from the Pakistani foreign minister, mangoes became a sign of loyalty to Mao. Rallies were organized honoring mangoes. Half a million people greeted mango replicas when they arrived in Chengdu. One man compared a mango to a sweet potato and was executed.
pYj98 TIL: that Charleston, South Carolina had one of the oldest and most populated Jewish-American communities of any US city in the 18th and 19th century
JngV TIL In 1939, Władysław Szpilman, known from “The Pianist”, was in the middle of performing a Chopin piece when German fire on Polish Radio’s studio forced him to stop playing. This was Poland’s last live music broadcast until 1945, when he opened the first broadcast by picking up where he left off.