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XEL8X TIL Bananas and Tomatoes are technically berries whilst Strawberries and Raspberries are not. This is because the technical classification of a berry is any fruit derived from a single flower with one ovary, and both raspberries and strawberries stem from flowers with more than one ovary.
wo7y7 TIL the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs (~10 km wide) was no where near the biggest to ever hit Earth — earlier impacts were caused by asteroids 20–25 km across, like the one that made the Vredefort crater
oRvkK TIL that the law firm Morgan & Morgan fired half of its marketing department in 2021 because they criticized the firm's "Size Matters" campaign as an inappropriate joke.
gmWD TIL the old Scottish word for “clitoris” is “tickleygiblet”
xVJ8g TIL that director Steven Spielberg's father is 103 (!!!) and won a Computer Pioneer Award in 2006.