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TIL that strawberries are in the same plant family as roses

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X0Kkk TIL that flying the Union Flag upside down can be taken as a distress signal or even an insult. It has a correct way up (St Andrew’s white above St Patrick’s red), should never be flown dirty or torn, needs no permission in the UK, and can be flown at night if lit.
b95lp TIL That the rate of Alcohol related deaths in 2019 were the highest since the 1910s
W9k4 TIL a USA pint is approximately 20% smaller than an imperial pint
e0pn6 TIL in 1982, a man named Larry Walters attached 45 helium-filled balloons to a lawn chair and took flight to a height of 16,000 feet. He did so because he was denied entry in the US Air Force due to poor eyesight.
d8Vr7 TIL a French woman, Marie Belmont-Gobert, hid a British soldier in a cramped cupboard in her house from Jan 1915 to the end of WWI in 1918, despite German officers living in her home and socialising in the room the cupboard was in. She received an OBE post-war. Cupboard is in museum in U.K.