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TIL that strawberries aren’t actually berries, but bananas, avocados, pumpkins and watermelons are.

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Ya17 TIL on the Set of “Charlie’s angel’s” Bill Murray said “you can’t act” to Lucy Liu during a scene. She was so enraged she threw punches at him and the production was shut down for the day. Their inability to work together caused Murray to be replaced with Bernie Mac for the sequel
ADMga TIL Nintendo created a video game based on the Popeye comic strip, but could not acquire licensing rights for the characters. Rather than scrap the work that was done, it released with a new cast - a plumber, his girlfriend, and a gorilla - and was renamed "Donkey Kong" after the game's antagonist.
w5GW TIL: A 15 year old found a cheap and speedy way to detect pancreatic cancer. He was denied 199 times before someone gave him a chance.
1aeWD TIL of the Battle of Ramree Island in which the Allies launched an attack to retake Ramree and its neighbour Cheduba Island. There were reports of Japanese soldiers being eaten by saltwater crocodiles.
GAQB1 TIL in 1986, Lake Nyos had a limnic CO₂ eruption (a rare but natural disaster) which killed 1,746 humans. No flies surrounded the bodies because the insects had also perished.