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TIL Iceland has Europe's largest banana plantation

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VBE50 TIL. Physiologist Giles Brindley, in 1983 presented his treatment for erectile disfunction by injecting himself before his talk and dropping his pants to show the crowd of urologists.
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9eo6 TIL the expiration date on bottled water is for the bottle, not the water.
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