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TIL wrapping banana stems in plastic will slow down the ripening process

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WkK7N TIL Cats only have a few hundred taste buds, compared to 9000+ for humans. They are unable to taste anything sweet. They dislike anything bitter like lemons or coffee, interpreting it as something dangerous.
Lkd5v TIL that in 1979, Brenda Spencer shot up an elementary school, killing two and wounding nine other people. When asked why she did it, she replied, "I don't like Mondays..." inspiring the song by the Boomtown Rats song.
AbVn TIL that since there is an exact number of weeks in a 400-year period (20,871 weeks), the day of the week exactly 400 years ago was the same as it is today. Thus, October 26, 1615 was a Monday.
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