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TIL tomato is both fruit and vegetable

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l7OPA TIL that Flowers, Fruit, Grass, and most kinds of Trees only evolved into existence in the Cretaceous Period.
PYYEG TIL bears and seals share a common ancestor under the infraorder Arctoidea, the same infraorder that also includes red pandas, skunks, wolverines and more in Musteloidea.
NX0oe TIL saturation divers have to live weeks in a pressurized environment underwater.
ep415 TIL the official cause of the Xbox 360 red ring of death was the poor quality of soldering balls used to adhere the GPU to the motherboard. The fluctuations in temperature when the console was turned on and off frequently, led to the soldering balls fracturing.
Bg04D TIL William Daniels (Mr Feeny in Boy Meet World) holds the record for the longest active (still living) and 5th longest overall “Hollywood Marriage”. His St. Elsewhere co-Star Norman Lloyd holds the second longest overall “Hollywood Marriage” on record