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TIL Texas has its own dialect of German, and it’s close to extinction

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EELw TIL in 1893 the Supreme Court held trial on whether tomato is a fruit or a vegetable. Testimonies consisted mainly of reading various dictionary entries. It was unanimously ruled a vegetable after 16 days.
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