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TIL Charles Darwin and Abraham Lincoln were born on the same day of the same year.

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GAYAE TIL - Bananas are curved because they are negatively geotropic; they curve upwards to break through the banana leaf canopy to reach sunlight!
KLNJ TIL the world record for fastest 1-mile run by a 5-year-old is 6:33.
DWVv TIL in 1991 the tallest structure in the world at the time (a radio tower in Poland) collapsed due to poor maintenance. No structure exceeded the height of the collapsed Warsaw Radio Tower until the Bujr Khalifa was completed in Dubai nearly two decades later.
R7xkj TIL Sigmund Freud's nephew convinced the public that bacon and eggs was the true all-American breakfast
6DoJ TIL One of the test pilots for the interceptor version of the SR-71 was chosen for Apollo 15 mission to the Moon. He had a heart attack after his moon walk and the only reason anybody knew was because NASA noticed it on his heart monitor. It was left out of the mission debriefing records.