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TIL Pumpkin fruits are a type of botanical berry known as a pepo.

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n1M9 TIL red, green, and yellow peppers are all the same species of plants that are in different stages of ripening.
l7PeK TIL that there has been one Archbishop of Canterbury to have killed while in office. In 1621, Archbishop George Abbot accidentally shot a gamekeeper while hunting, which greatly traumatized him for the rest of his church career.
D1G5P TIL that Scotland re-established its parliament in 1999 after the Scotland Act (1998) was passed by the British parliament after a referendum. One of the first words spoken in the Parliament were, "The Scottish Parliament, which adjourned on March 25, 1707, is hereby reconvened." - Dr. Ewing.
neVrY TIL that the day after the attack on Pearl Harbor, Jeannette Rankin was the only member of the US congress voted AGAINST going to war with Japan. "As a woman, I can't go to war," she said, "and I refuse to send anyone else."
ANYxB TIL each element on the Periodic Table corresponds to one solution of the main equation in the field of quantum mechanics & that the entire field of chemistry emerged from that single equation.