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TIL A strawberry isnt a berry but a banana is.

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A6jl TIL on September 19, 1985, when Frank Zappa famously testified before Congress to protest the PMRC’s attempt to legislate and censor heavy metal music lyrics, Zappa compared the proposed legislation to “treating dandruff by decapitation”
0wjY1 TIL, 146 cryogenically frozen people are buried in the desert waiting for science to resurrect them
MRO0 TIL that GPS devices are programmed to automatically shut off if they detect themselves to be traveling more than 1,200 mph at a attitude of more than 60,000 ft, just in case it is attached to an intercontinental ballistic missile.
6kj7 TIL that after George H.W. Bush, a Naval Aviator, was shot down and rescued by a submarine in WWII, he lived aboard that submarine for a month, assisting in the rescue of other aviators.
a8odL TIL: Citizens of 13th century Freiburg didn't like that the Count of Freiburg increasing taxes and limiting their freedom of trade, so they destroyed his castle with catapults.