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TIL There is a banana ripening facility in The Bronx, NY

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wLe81 TIL that it is a tradition in Japan to create rabbits out of snow that is called Yukiusagi, they use berries or red food dye for the eyes and bamboo leaves for the ears
QJJnX TIL that people often assume that attractive people are more successful and have better personalities than unattractive people, due to a cognitive bias known as the Halo Effect.
0wXA5 TIL about a set of twins that reunited after 37 years in 1979. Both were named Jim by their adoptive parents, loved carpentry and math, and pursued careers in security. Even stranger, they had each married a woman named Linda and then remarried a woman named Betty.
R76ya TIL hairdresser Christina M. Jenkins invented the hair weave for African American women in the 1940s.
VB49m TIL it is entirely possible that our planet has already been detected by the planets of 75 neighbouring stars to contain life, from our earliest radio wave transmissions.