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TIL that while it's a grain agriculturally, a vegetable culinarily, corn is botanically a fruit

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0dpmN TIL: One in four American cowboys were black
NXO4Q TIL supplicia canum ("punishment of the dogs") was an annual sacrifice of ancient Roman religion in which live dogs were suspended from a furca ("fork") or cross (crux) and paraded.
grm47 TIL the Stecklikrieg was a Swiss civil war in 1802, where rural insurgents, armed with improvised wooden clubs named "Stäckli" fought the Helvetic Republic, leading to his collapse, French re-occupation and Napoleon's mediation dictated in 1803.
b9nY7 TIL a woman disappeared while working on a Disney cruise ship. It was believed she was assaulted & then thrown overboard. Disney seemingly covered it up, destroying evidence & lying to her family about what happened.
awRlZ TIL that beavers build dams based on the sound of flowing water, even if raised in captivity or in the absence of actual water.