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TIL the US Supreme Court ruled in 1893 that tomatoes are a vegetable.

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b64e0 TIL: People used to perform pregnancy tests by injecting urine into a frog. If the frog is female and has eggs at near its rear end after 12 hours then the woman is pregnant. If the frog is male and produces sperm, then the woman is pregnant.
4ww5 TIL In Switzerland, it is illegal to own only one guinea pig because they’re social animals prone to loneliness.
KY6Aa TIL American Billionaire Andrew Carnegie Offered To Buy The Philippines’ Freedom from US Colonization For $20 Million
mxxRo If stretching before exercise is of questionable benefit, is there any time that stretching is beneficial? The Phys Ed columnist Gretchen Reynolds responds to readers’ questions.
VJA4 TIL Pakistan, Iran, and 12 other Muslim countries support the teaching of evolution, including human evolution.