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TIL Sichuan pepper, commonly used in Chinese cuisine, was banned in the US until 2005

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1aoDP TIL Captive Giant Pandas were shown a video of pandas mating in the wild, in an effort to get them to mate in the female's 3-day breeding cycle. When "Yongyong" tried to mount "Ke Lin", she fought him off; but after Ke Lin viewed the "panda pornography," the pair mated successfully.
v18dB TIL it's national cheese fondue day and bunch more others
9YDJX TIL typhoons, hurricanes, and cyclones are all the same type of storm, they're just called differently depending on where they form
gMlgy TIL The fear of palindromes, aibohphobia, is, quite sadistically, a palindrome.
D1mer TIL we get more starlight during the day than at night