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TIL cucumber is not only a fruit but also a type of squash, related to pumpkins.

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AvZn TIL Although Stan Lee gave the Hulk’s alter ego the alliterative name “Bruce Banner”, Lee misremembered it and referred to him as “Bob Banner” in some later stories, an error which readers quickly picked up on. To resolve this discrepancy he decided the official name is “Robert Bruce Banner”.
9wWlX TIL about Planet 9, a hypothetical ninth planet in the outer region of our solar system. The planet has not been directly observed, but the gravitational effects of the planet could explain the unique orbits of bodies beyond Neptune, which orbit the sun as a single cluster.
xVDKo TIL that there are 2,620 people on death row in the United States as of January 1, 2020.
EgdB0 TIL In 1917, the world’s first animated feature film was made in Argentina. It was a political satire called El Apostol made up of 58,000 drawings and had a running time of 70 minutes. The film was lost after a fire destroyed the producer’s studio in 1926.
l7YVK TIL: Henry Ford tried creating an electric railroad. It only lasted a few years but some of the well constructed concrete arches are still in place today.