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TIL that strawberries are in the same plant family as roses
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TIL that Willie Nelson released an album in 1992 specifically made to pay off his debts to the IRS, entitled ‘The IRS Tapes: Who’ll Buy My Memories?’
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TIL of the Heckler's Veto, where a speaker's freedom of speech is allowed to be impeded on if people who are listening are audibly overpowering the speaker.
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TIL a high school in Tucson, Arizona had a Mexican American/ethnic studies program that graduated 93% of its students (vs. the 48% of Latinos graduating statewide) before it was banned for being un-American in 2010.
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TIL when New Zealand crowd-sourced ideas for a new national flag, one of the most infamous designs was "Fire the Lazer", a flag with a silver fern and a kiwi shooting a laser out of its eyes.
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TIL The first numeronym was "S12n", the electronic mail account name given to Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) employee Jan Scherpenhuizen by a system administrator because his surname was too long to be an account name.