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TIL peas are categorised as seeds, and the pea pod is a fruit.

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b6pD9 TIL that in 2018, MIT scientists created a plane powered by an Ion drive. The plane had no moving parts and was able to fly 60 metres powered solely by a flow of ions generated through electrodynamics which created thrust.
gM0AL TIL Porsche key fobs are shaped, miniature models of the vehicle on a scale of 1:43.
woXG8 TIL that from 1915 to 1952, film was not protected under the First Amendment, because the Supreme Court (voting 9-0) saw film as "a business, pure and simple, originated and conducted for profit" and therefore subject to government censorship, resulting in the strict "Hays Code" in 1934
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