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

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N7XZP TIL China has 151 cities with a metro population of at least a million. Shanghai at 44.2 million has a larger population than the entire state of California.
W7BXL TIL In 1973 a Swedish convict Jan-Erik Olsson took 4 ppl as hostages during a bank robbery in Stockholm. During the incident they built a strong emotional bond with him, that none of the hostages testified against him, instead they helped him. This psychological bond is called "Stockholm Syndrome"
GA9Nj TIL that Archibald Gracie, a passenger who survived The Titanic sinking but died of complications within a year, had already endured tragedy in 1903, when his young daughter had been compressed to death in a hotel elevator shaft in Paris.
VMO9m TIL the National Institutes of Health concluded in a 2019 analysis that PFAS are in the blood of 97 percent of Americans.
KYAkR TIL a policeman William Potts invented the first tri-colour, four-directional traffic signal in 1920 in Motor City (Detroit).