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TIL An avocado is technically a berry.

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nL1W TIL 1964 Republican Presidential Nominee Barry Goldwater was a supporter of gay rights and denounced the religious right after their rise in 1980’s
90Am TIL in Bram Stokers original novel, Dracula is not killed by sunlight. He just becomes weaker.
KOD94 TIL there are no such thing as true wild horses any more. The Western US has a population of free-roaming horses that are descendants of domesticated Colonial Spanish horses and are thus technically feral not wild.
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b9Wg7 TIL In 2013, 19 living men in the Tyrol region of Austria were determined to be direct descendants of Ötzi the Iceman.