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TIL Ren and Stimpy, Doug, and Rugrats all premiered on the same day

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VMBAp TIL the "artificial banana flavour" we know today tastes more like the type of banana that was the main variety up until the 1950's, when it was wiped out by a fungus.
1aQVd TIL that in 1985 the US’s Delta force and Seal Team Six were surrounded (guns drawn) by the Italian Carabinieri after the US forced an airliner to land at an Italian NATO base. This stemmed from the hijacking of an Italian cruise ship and the killing of an American by members of the PLO days earlier
b60Z7 TIL U-570 was a WW2 German U-boat that achieved the unusual distinction of surrendering to an aircraft when a British Hudson Bomber struck her with depth charges in 1941. She was then commissioned into the Royal Navy as the HMS Graph until being decommissioned and wrecked off Scotland in 1944.
QNMp6 TIL There are fossilized plants over 4500 feet beneath the ice sheet in Greenland
kPpe TIL that a meteorite exploded over the Mediterranean in 1999. Had it occurred a few hours earlier on the same latitude, it would have triggered a nuclear war between India and Pakistan who were fighting the Kargil War at that time.