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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.
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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
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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.
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TIL the old Scottish word for “clitoris” is “tickleygiblet”
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TIL that director Steven Spielberg's father is 103 (!!!) and won a Computer Pioneer Award in 2006.