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TIL that the "Bendy Banana Law" took effect on 1 January 1995 in the European Union where standards for banana quality and classification were introduced

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R5ZV6 TIL Arnold Schwarzenegger wasn't allowed to dub his own role in Terminator in German, as his accent is very rural by German/Austrian standards and it would be too ridiculous to have a death machine from the future come back in time and sound like a hillbilly.
LQVxm TIL: The country of Kenya gets nearly one half of all it’s electricity from geothermal power plants
GYxOQ TIL Two days before the 1976 Israeli raid on Entebbe Airport to rescue hostages, Idi Amin allowed one of the sick Jewish passengers to be taken to a local hospital and allowed her to stay there after receiving treatment but sent a squad to murder her when he felt humiliated by the Israeli action
xAN7 TIL launching a nuclear weapon within the City of Chicago is punishable by up to 30 days’ imprisonment and a $1,000 fine [x-post from /r/Chicago]
LkQdP TIL Security company Cloudflare uses a camera pointed at a wall of 100 lava lamps to generate the random numbers used to encrypt approximately 10% of all internet traffic