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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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R67j TIL: Hebrew became extinct as a spoken native language around 200 CE. It was revived in Paris on 13 October 1881 when a man called Eliezer Ben-Yehuda and his friends agreed to exclusively speak Hebrew in their conversations.
YpyyZ TIL that bees dance to pin-point a location.
4X4Y6 TIL that up until the 1600s, a “black swan” was a metaphor for something that did not exist. Then a group of Dutch explorers became the first Europeans to see black swans in Western Australia in 1697, and the phrase was amended to mean “a perceived impossibility that might later be disproven.”
b6LAE TIL that 1 in 20 people who take commercial DNA tests like those offered by ancestry.com discover that one of the people they thought was their biological parent is actually not their biological parent.
14G4 TIL two con men sold a fake painting for €1.5 million, only to find out that all the money was counterfeit