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TIL that grapes, tomatoes, cucumbers, eggplants, bananas, and chili peppers are botanically defined as berries. While, strawberries, raspberries, and blackberries are technically not botanically defined as berries.

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b601N TIL what the difference is between Miss World, Miss Universe, Miss International and Miss Earth.
kVD4 TIL that the government of Denmark recreated it’s entire nation, block-for-block, in Minecraft to help kids get excited about geography. Only to have hackers dynamite the towns and erect American flags over the rubble.
KOlgR TIL out of the 3 volunteers who went in 1986 on a suicide mission to open the valves of the pool at the Chernobyl plant 2 are actually still alive
X096r TIL that in the 19th century people thought that the left side of the brain was masculine and the right side feminine. "The right side of the brain was seen as the inferior and thought to be prominent in women, savages, children, criminals, and the insane."
Wk5nA TIL fireworks were invented in China sometime between 200 BC and 900 AD. It is believed Marco Polo brought fireworks from China to Europe in 1295, and the global popularity exploded after that. In 1830, colors were added in Italy by adding different metallic powders.