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TIL the first president of Zimbabwe was named President Banana

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XlMr TIL in 2009, an abusive litigant sued a man for $30k for selling him a $40 printer on Craigslist, claiming it was broken. The case lasted for 6½ years and, as of 2016, may still be on-going.
9wrWp TIL there is no correlation between current AI progress and unemployment (for now)
VBQxB TIL, Brazilian footballer Roberto Carlos famous banana free kick, curled from a distance of 33.13-metre distance, during the, 1997 Tournoi de France opening game, between France vs Brazil.
m1ODM TIL that from the late 1920s to the early 1970s, many U.S. drug stores, grocery stores, and department stores had self-service tube testers in which customers could test vacuum tubes that were pulled from their malfunctioning electronic devices.
ZEnv TIL eating a human body would provide about 81,500 calories