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TIL tomato is both fruit and vegetable

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p8mnQ TIL that San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge is not named for its color but for its location on the Golden Gate Strait. Its unusual reddish-orange color was a radical choice in the 1930s. It matched primer painted on some of the steel.
wLJKJ TIL Time seems to pass more slowly for lighter animals with faster metabolisms
dxp9 TIL Jaleel White (Steve Urkel from Family Matters) was also the voice of Sonic the Hedgehog in the original cartoons.
a88Vo TIL that octopuses often collect trinkets and will plunder coins from ancient shipwrecks to fill their homes with
EaZd TIL in Japan, those who are sentenced to death don’t know the day they will be executed until the actual day comes