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TIL In 2016, China passed a new law that banned people from seductively eating bananas on live stream.

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wx1Y TIL that in 1980 New Mexico prison riot, prisoners in protective custody waited for 5 hours while prison gangs cut their way into the cell block with blow torches and then tortured and killed them. They could have escaped through a rear door, but the guards refused to open it.
rN0Pe TIL: A study from the UK, from that surfers are 3x more likely to have a unique antibiotic-resistant bacteria due to how much fecal matter they unknowingly ingest from UK seawater. They study did this through butt swabs from participants. It also highlights how dirty UK seawater is.
NVE6 TIL the largest man made objects are the submarine communication cables that stretch over 8,000 km from San Francisco to New Zealand
9wRX TIL Mr. Bubble, bubble bath, is suspected to have caused a generation of women to have a life-long predisposition to UTI’s.
VBOx4 TIL Coca Cola released a German advert celebrating the 75th anniversary of Fanta’s 1940 founding in Nazi Germany. Before it got pulled, it stated it wanted to “bring the feeling of the good old times back.”