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TIL That eggplants, tomatoes and avocados are botanically classified as berries but that a strawberry is not a berry at all.

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xxVB TIL in 1957 an airplane crashed onto Rikers Island. 57 inmates ran to help the survivors. Most of the prisoners who helped were either set free or received reduced sentences.
9d4D TIL that it is possible for a human to become a Chimera by fusing with his/her fraternal twin in the womb. If it occurs early enough, each twin will claim body parts as his/her own, allowing a single person to be made up of two genetically different individuals.
dDMgZ TIL that humanity has a 95% probability of going extinct by the year 10,000 AD according to Brandon Carter's formulationof the controversial Doomsday argument, which argues that half of the humans who will ever have lived have probably already been born.
78M9Z TIL that the "deadly" Sydney Funnel-Web Spiders have failed to kill a single person since an antivenom was developed in 1981.
5V9bQ TIL the creator of the most used drum loop sample in music history, Gregory C. Coleman, died homeless and in poverty without ever receiving royalty payments.