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TIL Seals often visit Loch Ness, swimming up river from the ocean.

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b6R89 TIL that blueberries (and cranberries) are true berries, produced from a single ovary with non permeable skin. Raspberries, blackberries, and strawberries, on the other hand, whose tissue holds hundreds of ovaries with permeable surfaces, are made up of smaller fruits.
jLpR TIL: Homosexuality is still a crime in 38 African countries.
OGEeY TIL Grass didn't exist until the Cretaceous
Eggjo TIL Astronomers measure sunspot areas using a square grid by placing the grid over the photo of a sunspot and count the number of squares covering it. Areas can also be determined using graphical charts and software
6QPX TIL that U.S. schoolchildren used to say the Pledge of Allegiance using the “Bellamy salute” (more recognizably the salute used by Hitler and the Nazis). In order to prevent further confusion or controversy, US Congress instituted the hand-over-the-heart gesture.