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TIL that eating ripe bananas help combat abnormal cells and the more dark spots a banana has the better the anti-cancer quality.

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E0dw TIL pangolins are bipedal
yGwl TIL Bill Watterson (creator of Calvin and Hobbes) refused to merchandise his creations on the grounds that it would devalue the characters and their personalities
pvaO TIL that JJ Thompson won the Nobel Prize in Physics for discovering that electrons act as particles, while his son GP Thompson won the Nobel Prize for discovering that electrons act as waves.
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