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TIL botanically speaking, corn is a fruit as it is produced from the flower or the ovary of the corn plant. But because of the way it is eaten, it is often classified as either grain or vegetable.

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pxO TIL that during Christmas 1914, German and British soldiers had a truce and exchanged gifts and food on the Western Front. They even played a football match between the trenches. The Germans won 3-2.
awm0L TIL the most searched gymnast, Simon Biles who took home five medals at the Rio Olympics, four of them gold, pioneered new moves, known as "The Biles" and "The Biles II"
KY0QQ TIL it was reported that over 500k children died as a result of sanctions on Iraq after the first gulf war, despite it being proven as a manipulation of census data by Saddam’s government, is still believed by many Iraqis today.
4XA6N TIL The title of "World's Greatest Athlete" has been given to the person who wins the decathlon. This began when King Gustav V of Sweden told Jim Thorpe, "You, sir, are the world's greatest athlete" after Thorpe won the decathlon at the Stockholm Olympics in 1912.
d8VoB TIL that the discovery of elements 95 and 96 (americium and curium) was first announced by physicist Glenn Seaborg on the children’s radio show Quiz Kids, in response to one of the children asking whether any new elements had been discovered at the Metallurgical Laboratory in Chicago during the war