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TIL that the “slipping on a banana peel” trope originated in the late 1800s, when discarded banana peels were considered a serious public hazard

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lonDN TIL when the Nazis burned Sigmund Freud's books he said, "What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now, they are content with burning my books."
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GAemg TIL that the last words of Apache leader and prisoner of war Geronimo were: "I should have never surrendered. I should have fought until I was the last man alive."