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TIL mulberries are more closely related to figs than to raspberries or blackberries

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kJaOe TIL about Leo Major, a Canadian soldier who liberated a village alone during WWII, and later captured Hill 355 with 18 men during the Korean war, fighting thousands of men
6beZ TIL that the first documented appearance of “the finger” in the United States was in 1886, when Charles Radbourn, a baseball pitcher for the Boston Beaneaters, was photographed giving it to a member of their rival the New York Giants.
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