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TIL a banana is a berry

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0w7OR TIL it’s suggested the older a man is when he fathers a child, the more likely the child will develop schizophrenia
Xowk TIL that on a surprise visit to hospital after a fan fell into a coma when stabbed 30 times, Geri Halliwell (Ginger Spice), sang to the girl and her arms and legs started moving, the next day she woke up.
VnMm TIL that in ‘Tropic Thunder,’ Robert Downey Jr.’s character says “I don’t drop character 'til I’ve done the DVD commentary.” When doing the actual DVD commentary, RDJ does it in the characters Lincoln Osiris and Kirk Lazarus.
XE5lQ TIL that the Dow Jones Industrial Average will continually rise and break new records because the Dow ignores inflation and is heavily curated, meaning underperforming companies are periodically removed from the index and replaced by companies that are performing better.
b998a TIL of a woman named Mary Grams, who lost her engagement ring. Sixteen years later, she was pulling carrots in her garden when she found her carrot growing through her ring. This is also the second time a person has found a carrot growing through a lost ring, the first in 2016.