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TIL: Banana is a herb, a fruit, antimatter emitter, Radiation emitter, and a unit of scale

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Bro6d TIL: A statue in Odessa, Ukraine of Vladimir Lennon is being given a sci-fi twist converting it to a statue of Darth vader
8evRZ TIL about Kati Thanda–Lake Eyre, Australia's largest lake when full. An endorheic lake, Kati Thanda's level is dependent on the seasonal monsoons and mostly dries up during the dry season.
ywkv TIL unlike in Cool Runnings, the Olympic bobsledding community welcomed the first Jamaican team; and offered them guidance and spare sleds. They went on to crash in the Qualifying Round.
P1ymG TIL 18th Century French chemist Antoine Lavoisier named air combusting with nitrogen and sulfur, "oxygène." Prior, it was named "dephlogisticated air."
YpPZ7 TIL Thomas Jefferson wrote his own epitaph but never mentioned he was president. The epitaph reads: "here was buried Thomas Jefferson, Author of the Declaration of American Independence, of the Statue of Virginia for Religious Freedom, and Father of the University of Virginia"