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TIL there’s a poker hand called Anna Kournikova because “it looks great but never wins”

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xVEyk TIL of a "pineberry", a white hybrid of the strawberry. It looks just like one, but has the taste of a pineapple. It had been "rescued" by Dutch farmers, and later on, commercially sold in the 2010's. At the moment, they're grown (only) in Japan. They're ~$10.00 per berry.
yKdp TIL The Hairy Frog breaks it own bones to make claws.
Br1Vb TIL in 2016 an astronomer convinced Alaska Airlines to shift a flight time 25 minutes so it would pass through the path of totality for a solar eclipse. They even washed all the windows on the right side of the plane.
pPwe TIL: An inmate who murders a guard can get no more than five years in solitary confinement, but being found to be associated with a gang—even if you haven’t done anything illegal—can land you in isolation for decades.
VBplm TIL that if the entire observable universe were shrunk to the size of the earth (12000 km diameter), the earth would be about 180th of the size of an atom