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TIL bananas are curved because they grow towards the sun

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OVn6 TIL there is a curry so hot that it is higher on the Scoville Scale for hotness than tear gas. It’s also so hot that only ONE MAN on earth has been able to finish a full serving and that guy wandered around town hallucinating for ten minutes halfway through his dish
BgblK TIL that waterbuck produce volatile organic compounds which act as a natural tsetse fly repellent, which researchers are testing for use on livestock
4oQR TIL while governments are OK with using tear gas on their own civilian populations, they prohibit it in war
JAb8 TIL the Lake Pontchartrain Causeway in Louisiana, the longest continuous bridge passing over water, is so long that for 8 of its 24 miles, you can’t see land in any direction.
6OYQ TIL there is a free-market surgery center in Oklahoma that lets you know what the price is for a procedure ahead of time.