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TIL If you spell Bananas without the B it's the scientific name for pineapples

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nxyP TIL that a newlywed woman hiking on the Cook Inlet mud flats in Alaska got her leg stuck in the mud as the tide came in. Rescuers kept her alive using a hose as a breathing tube when the water rose past her head, until she lost the tube.
yVZKa TIL Sally Field's son Peter Craig is a screenwriter with credits on The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1 and Part 2, Bad Boys for Life, The Batman and Top Gun: Maverick. Her other son Eli Craig directed the cult hit Tucker and Dale Vs. Evil.
RGX1 TIL: If you apply an electric current to a pickle it will glow in the dark
ADMko TIL the first time a switch hitter went up against a switch pitcher they kept alternating stances until the umpires stopped the game
rRDAW TIL that James McCormick sold the ADE 651, a fake ‘bomb detector’, all over the world (specifically Iraq) by purchasing novelty golf ball detectors for less than $20 and reselling it for $5000 each. His scam has cost lives and the ‘bomb detectors’ are probably still in use today.