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TIL Paradise City by Guns N' Roses was originally gonna have the line "Where the girls are fat and they have big titties", however the band voted against it.

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6vnw TIL mathematician, Per Enflo, solved Problem 153 in the “Scottish Book” in 1972, and was awarded a live goose as promised by Polish mathematician, Stansilaw Mazur, who posed the problem in 1936.
D1KjJ TIL The sound made by the Krakatoa volcanic eruption in 1883 was so loud it ruptured eardrums of people 40 miles away, travelled around the world four times, and was heard from over 3000 miles away.
X0mmD TIL that bananas are curved due to their growth towards the sun. The rate of cell division on each side of the fruit, influenced by sunlight, determines the degree of curvature.
yVnNM TIL Ken Norton broke Muhammad Ali’s jaw in their first fight. However it is disputed which round this was in, with Ali’s camp claiming it was round one and Norton’s saying it was round 11.
OowQ7 TIL, a group of zebras can be called a "dazzle" of zebras.