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TIL blue raspberry flavor is based on a real fruit called Whitebark Raspberry, which bears blue/black fruit.

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J1jY1 TIL about Ilha da Queimada Grande or Snake Island off the coast of Brazil. It is home to the critically endangered, venomous golden lancehead pit viper, one of the most dangerous snakes on Earth. Brazil has closed off the island to protect the snakes and the humans.
xV0do TIL that Bruce Lee’s son, Brandon Lee, was killed while filming a scene where his character gets shot. A bullet had become lodged in the barrel of the gun and when a dummy round was subsequently fired, the force expelled the bullet and hit Lee in the abdomen. He died a few hours later
Z8JEo TIL there is a small strip of land in North Carolina which is officially British. This small cemetery is the burial place of several soldiers killed in World War 2. It flies the British flag, and the 'forever lease' states that it is British land.
P78V TIL that Germans killed an estimated 1.9 million non-Jewish Polish civilians in concentration camps
D1rkp TIL the word "skunk" is derived from a word that literally means pee fox