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TIL that unlike fruit, the term vegetable is not botanical, but is largely defined by culinary and cultural tradition.

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9w40p TIL That a few days after the Oklahoma City Bombings, a severed left leg was found in the rubble. DNA evidence showed that it from a victim, Lakesha Levy. When they went to return her leg, it was found that she was already buried with one. It is unknown who the buried leg belongs to.
Avd TIL there is a Boston Red Sox slugger Ted Williams who missed almost five full baseball seasons fighting as a fighter pilot in World War II and the Korean War and still managed to hit 521 home runs.
4LMw TIL The Berry case was not Sylvia Browne’s most horrific prediction. “Browne did a reading for [Erica’s] mother, saying she was in water and someone named “Chris” killed her. The following day, Erica’s ex-boyfriend, Chris Mineer, killed himself.”
16OxW TIL that the two candidates in the 1886 Tennessee Gubernatorial Election were brothers. The two campaigned alongside each other, spending the first half of each campaign stop engaging in political banter and telling stories and the second half playing fiddle tunes while the crowd danced.
ADVgd TIL In Japan there is a fire alarm that can wake deaf people by spraying wasabi in the air