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

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RLN9 [TIL] Nestle agreed in 2001 to ensure its products were not made with slave labor by 2005. In 2005, the international organization it made the agreement with found it had not done so.
P8wZ TIL The principal on “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off” is a registered sex offender.
jNndj TIL that hummingbirds burn up to 12,000 calories per day, about six times more than a fully grown average human male.
rRnaw TIL spacesuits weigh nearly 300 pounds when empty (130kg)
a0g9 TIL that Richard Nixon was gifted two Giant Pandas (Ling-Ling and Hsing-Hsing) after his historic visit to China in 1972. They were given to the US as a token of friendship between the two countries.