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TIL A strawberry isnt a berry but a banana is.

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XERnD TIL the famously isolated Sentinelese hunter-gatherer tribe appear not to know how to set fire. They rely on natural fire from thunderstorms and keep the embers burning as long as they can.
WkWmN TIL Willem Defoe's "Confusing large penis" is so large that in the movie Antichrist a penis double was used to not "intimidate" the audience.
4X5ja TIL astronauts need to sleep near air vents or risk carbon dioxide from their own lungs forming a bubble around their head due to weightlessness.
5bJn TIL survivors of the USS Arizona have the option to have their ashes placed within the ship upon their passing.
4X8no TIL that in Oklahoma in the 1920s, ranchers, lawyers and public officials conspired together to murder 60+ Osage Indians in order to secure the rights to their oil-rich land. Only two men were ever convicted. Both were paroled and one pardoned by the governor of Oklahoma.