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TIL Banana Laffy Taffy isn’t “fake” banana flavor, it’s just based on a cultivar that is effectively extinct.

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Lk9MP TIL about a man who shot a protected saguaro cactus down with his shotgun in 1982. The cactus fell on him, crushing and impaling him to death.
77rr TIL Godwin’s Law: “As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Hitler approaches 1”
py4e TIL that there is evidence to support that Ancient Egypt had proctologists and their term for the position literally translates to “shepherd of the anus”.
LQolp TIL that a season of Super Sentai (The show that Power Rangers take fight footage from) ended with a ranger getting killed by a mugger.
EnQX TIL during a screening of “E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial” at the White House President Reagan told Steven Speilberg “there are a number of people in this room who know that everything on that screen is absolutely true”. According to Spielberg the President said this with a totally straight face.