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TIL Banana peels are edible (and good for you!)

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dNmd TIL The UK has 4 nuclear submarines as a nuclear deterrent, each has an identical “letter of last resort”. These letters contain orders from the current PM should the government collapse due to nuclear attack. The PM has only four options to choose and they’re destroyed unopened upon a new PM.
0wmRR TIL that the French soldier Jean Bernadotte became so popular in Sweden that they elected him king in 1818 when their own royal family was about to die out. The Bernadotte family still rules in Sweden today
yVVy8 TIL in 2019 a woman woke up alone in an Air Canada plane after sleeping through the landing, hours after it had deplaned. She had to use a flashlight she found in the cockpit to signal for help.
1aVbr TIL in 2016, 104-year-old Jack Reynolds became the oldest person to get a tattoo, and a year later at 105-years-old, he became the oldest person to ride a rollercoaster.
gGoy TIL that Finnish police found a dead mosquito while searching a stolen car. They tested the blood from the mosquito’s last meal and used it to identify the thief.