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

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oRe4r TIL most uncontacted groups choose to live in isolation, even though they know about the outside world. This is probably because they fear catching diseases they have never encountered before and getting harmed by traffickers and loggers.
p8AY8 TIL about the largest known structure in the observable universe - Hercules–Corona Borealis Great Wall. It's approximately 10 billion light years in length, more than double the previous record holder, or 9.3% of the observable universe's diameter.
QNlep TIL the comedian Stephen Chow had one of the single most dominant years in box office history in 1992, when he starred in every one of the top five grossing films of the Hong Kong box office: Justice, My Foot; All’s Well Ends Well; Royal Tramp; King of Beggars; and Royal Tramp II
P1Wvw Today I learned the US has been conducting drone warfare since 1944.
0webv TIL of the Deep Scattering Ocean Layer. Initially mistaken by early sonar for the seabed, it turned out to be composed of millions of deep sea fish