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TIL that watermelons and pumpkins are classified as berries.
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TIL that in California and 3 other US states, “Ladies’ Night” are against the law because they are gender discrimination
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TIL While the Confederacy used the strongest cipher available during the Civil War, the Vigenère cipher, the Union consistently cracked it. This was because the Confederates only ever used three key phrases: "Manchester Bluff", "Complete Victory" and, as the war came to a close, "Come Retribution".
ANpm7
TIL when his movie Mr. & Mrs. Smith was going over budget, director Doug Liman dug into his own savings account and built a set in his mother's Upstate New York garage. And then blew it up with a hand grenade.
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TIL of the Quetzalcoatlus northropi, one of the biggest known flying animals of all time. It stood about as tall as a giraffe and had a wingspan as wide as the length of a gas tanker truck.
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TIL there is a sequel to Stanley Kubrick's '2001: A Space Odyssey' - '2010: The Year We Make Contact' was released 14 years after the first movie, and is based on Arthur C Clarke's sequel to the short story which inspired Kubrick's film.