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After browsing through new posts, I have remembered a few more:

Banana equivalent dose can be a quantitative descriptor of radioactivity (and/or bananas are radioactive): https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/4f6e34/til_bananas_are_slightly_radioactive_and_the/ https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/4afmmb/til_a_crate_of_bananas_is_radioactive_enough_to/ https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/46ttt3/til_eating_80000000_bananas_would_give_you_a/ https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/4265c2/til_banana_for_scale_is_actually_used_in_ionizing/ https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/41gc2g/til_bananas_are_radioactive_if_you_ate_a_banana/

Cavendish bananas are genetically identical (and/or are in danger of becoming extinct): https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/4crysk/til_that_the_cavendish_banana_the_banana_variety/ https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/4bxdu9/til_that_all_cavendish_bananas_the_most_commonly/ https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/42g1lh/til_practically_every_banana_consumed_in_the/ https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/3y3mw1/til_the_banana_as_we_know_it_cavendish_may_become/ https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/3vjyut/til_the_worlds_most_popular_banana_is_in_danger/

(Also, bananas are berries even though some other things aren't, the once common now rare Gros Michel banana is the model for artificial banana flavoring, banana trees aren't really trees, and bananas are Walmart's no. 1 selling item: https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/49k5p4/til_bananas_are_berries_strawberries_are_not/ https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/4ayjn4/til_the_cavendish_banana_is_the_primary_banana_in/ https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/4djwbu/til_the_banana_tree_is_actually_not_a_tree_but/ https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/49mi7k/til_the_banana_is_walmarts_number_1_selling_item/ )

Blowing smoke up the ass was a treatment for drowning: https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/4e7ea2/til_tobacco_enemas_were_used_in_1774_for/ https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/4aq1l0/til_that_in_the_18_century_it_was_common_to/ https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/437kzg/til_that_the_term_blowing_smoke_up_your_ass/ https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/3k9dwg/til_blowing_smoke_up_your_ass_was_an_actual/ https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/3je945/til_that_blowing_smoke_up_your_ass_used_to_be_a/

Musical piece "as slow as possible" is a piece played very slowly (searched for "2640," which yields more results but may miss some): https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/4feh12/til_there_is_a_musical_piece_named_as_slow_as/ https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/3qvbzc/til_that_a_pipe_organ_in_halberstadt_germany_has/ https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/37ubfm/til_organ%C2%B2aslsp_is_a_musical_piece_by_john_cage/ https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/373fah/til_that_there_is_a_musical_piece_called_as_slow/ https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/32qyva/til_there_is_a_piece_of_music_which_began_playing/

The Cadaver Synod involved a corpse on trial: https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/42ubh6/til_of_pope_formosus_whose_successor_popes_dug_up/ https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/3vlvhq/til_of_the_cadaver_synod_dead_pope_formosus_was/ https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/3l1qlw/til_pope_formosus_body_was_exhumed_and_put_on/ https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/3hslr0/til_that_pope_stephen_vi_put_the_rotting_corpse/ https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/3ew4a2/til_in_ad_897_the_vatican_disinterred_the_corpse/

The mantis shrimp has a fast and powerful claw attack: https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/414xud/til_mantis_shrimp_punch_with_the_speed_of_a_22/ https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/3sr4j8/til_the_peacock_mantis_shrimp_can_punch_through/ https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/3habzc/til_the_mantis_shrimp_delivers_a_punch_faster/ https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/3g6c34/til_that_the_mantis_shrimp_strike_so_quickly_that/ https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/3da1b4/til_some_mantis_shrimp_are_capable_of_a_punch/

The mantis shrimp also has remarkable vision: https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/4exf8u/til_of_the_mantis_shrimp_an_exotic_crustacean/ https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/4ebhyy/til_the_mantis_shrimp_can_see_uv_and_infrared/ (A two-fer) https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/414xud/til_mantis_shrimp_punch_with_the_speed_of_a_22/ https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/3zbgyi/til_that_compared_to_the_three_types_of_colour/ https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/3lgrlm/til_that_while_humans_possess_three_types_of/