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TIL bananas are curved because they grow towards the sun

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M7P5K TIL that US President Herbert Hoover falsely blamed Mexican Americans for the Great Depression, and decisively lost reelection after his mass deportation efforts did not resolve the economic crisis
NXp4E TIL the fastest speed a human being has ever attained was when Apollo 10 returned from the moon at 24,791 mph (36,360 feet/second).
lx1A TIL IN 1912, candy manufacturer Clarence Crane invented Life Savers as a “summer candy” that could withstand heat better than chocolate and shaped the candy with a hole to prevent children from choking, due to his own child having choked on a hard candy
aM6A TIL the word for “roller coasters” in Russian translates to “American Mountains.”
Y7y7r TIL: The Bronx County Bird Club (BCBC) was a small informal club of birders based in the Bronx, New York. Many club members became well-known ornithologists and authors.