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TIL that a British zoo banned monkeys from eating bananas for health reasons

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VM49Q TIL that Bowling for Soup's 1985 was originally recorded by SR-71
NXPRe TIL the streets of Ancient Rome were filled with jars that Roman men were free to use to relieve themselves. The jars were collected by fullers, who aged the urine and used it to launder clothes. The trade was so lucrative that Emperor Vespasian taxed the urine they collected.
kRde TIL the first person to circumnavigate the world was most likely Ferdinand Magellan’s slave Enrique of Malacca, who was born in Malaysia
oBXPo TIL most British houses have separate hot and cold taps because of old laws to prevent contamination of the mains water supply
grvGy TIL Fritz Haber invented a process of ammonia synthesis both to save the world from starvation and to serve the German war machine. He never saw the creation of Zyklon B from his process and its use by the Nazis to kill his relatives in the gas chambers.