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TIL It's illegal in Turkey to insult Mustafa Kemal Atatürk

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kO7xE TIL bananas can ripen avocados. Ripe bananas contain a natural plant hormone called ethylene, which triggers ripening in mature fruit. If both are placed in a paper bag, the paper bag traps the ethylene gas that’s produced by the fruit and speeds up the ripening process.
kOg9B TIL That Tesla sells their unused carbon tax credits to gas guzzling car producers reducing the net gains for the environment to zero.
xQD0 TIL: 50 % of female US marines failed the minimum requirement of 3 pulls ups.
b6pXZ TIL In Addition to the Well-Known Reading Disorders, There Are Also Writing Disorders
mK0O TIL the Nazis’ post war plans for the USSR consisted of killing over 100 million “racially inferior Slavs” by extermination through labor, starvation, and deportation while enslaving the remaining survivors as illiterate serfs on German plantations.