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nWxPY TIL Bananas are curved because they grow against the pull of gravity. They begin growing downwards, but as they get larger, they grow upwards to catch more sun, resulting in a curved shape.
wL4Q7 TIL that Axl Rose's (Singer for Guns'n'Roses) first studio recorded song in over 10 years was for the 'New Looney Tunes' show.
l7D95 TIL that John Knoll, Chief Creative Officer of Industrial Light & Magic and Oscar winning visual effects supervisor for multiple Star Wars and Pirates of the Caribbean films, is the co-creator of Adobe Photoshop with his brother Thomas. Wild
60XJ TIL that in order to keep the project a secret, the British army used the innocuous name “mobile water carriers” for a motorized weapons project - which is the reason we call them “tanks”.
b99va TIL Osama Bin Laden visited Indiana and Los Angeles in the late 1970s