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TIL that Eggplants are a type of / related to Deadly Nightshade (Belladonna), as well as other plants such as tomatoes, potatoes, and peppers.

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4kEDR Today I Learned that a feller buncher is a type of harvesting machine used in logging. “Feller” is someone who cuts down trees, and “bunching” is the skidding and assembly of two or more trees. A feller buncher is a motorized vehicle with an attachment that performs both of these functions.
Br1GL TIL that Benjamin Franklin wrote a letter to the Royal Academy of Brussels called “Fart Proudly”. The letter discussed the health benefits of passing gas an even included fart related puns.
rRQOe TIL George Washington thought one of the greatest threat and enemy to America would be political parties and would be the cause of weakening the American government.
ne1ZW TIL (According to Brent Berlin and Paul Kay's 1969 study Basic Color Terms: Their Universality and Evolution) Names for brown, purple, pink, orange, and gray will not emerge in a language until the language has made a distinction between green and blue.
mJrY TIL humans have a tendency to find meaningful patterns in meaningless data.