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

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mxPwo TIL 10 year old Candace Newmaker was suffocated to death during a "re-birthing" therapy session which simulated her being born again. (Transcript in link)
rN6Oo TIL The French conquest of Algeria lasted over 70 years, and five separate French governments. In the end as much as a third of Algeria's population was killed in the decades of invasions.
v1bpx TIL A member of the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster was denied the right to wear a colander in ID photos in Holland. Pastafarianism is considered a 'satire' and not a 'serious faith.'
4dpN TIL the Baltimore Gas and Electric Company once sent out scratch & sniff stickers to educate the public on the smell of a gas leak, only for it to backfire when the smell of the unopened envelopes were mistaken for gas leaks.
rNdWy Today I learned that there was an ancient version of Suez Canal, called "Canal of the Pharaohs". The canal was mostly in use untill Alid revolt of 762–763, when Hasanids revolted against Abbasid Caliphate.