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TIL Haugh units (HU) are used to measure the freshness of eggs!!

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a8rMA TIL: Bananas, avocados, tomatoes, and eggplants are berries, but strawberries aren't. In botanical terms, a berry is a fruit produced from the ovary of a single flower with seeds embedded in its flesh. A strawberry is a "multiple fruit" with many tiny fruits embedded within.
j6jBN TIL that All of Earth's water—including oceans, icecaps and glaciers, lakes, rivers, groundwater, and water in the atmosphere—equals ~326 quintillion gallons (326,000,000,000,000,000,000). Of that, a tiny fraction, 37.5 quadrillion gallons, is in the atmosphere above us as water vapor.
epdQ4 TIL China’s First Emperor’s Obsessive Quest for Immortality and The Elixir of Life Led to His Death and Collapse of His Dynasty
nW7nP TIL In order to work in the CIA cafeteria, a candidate needs to pass a Top Secret SCI background check.
VMjXD TIL that during the Soviet economy collapse and Russian privatization that followed, the Russian government decided to implement voucher privatization, giving the country's company shares equally to 98% of the population including minors.