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TIL Watermelon is a berry

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eBGb TIL when Astronaut Ed Mitchell was asked what it’s like to stand on the moon, he said: “From out there on the moon, international politics look so petty. You want to grab a politician by the scruff of the neck and drag him a quarter of a million miles out and say, ‘Look at that, you son of a bitch.’
OADe TIL Leonardo DiCaprio had to play a poorer version of himself in Wolf of Wall Street because he is richer in real life than the character he was playing. DiCaprio made 59 million for Inception, 20 million for The Great Gatsby and 10 million for Wolf of Wall Street. Those are only three of his films.
j6dyE TIL social media pundits widely criticized the Mr. Beast "1,000 Blind People See For The First Time" video as an extravagant philanthropic stunt and accused him of being "charitable for views."
Eevx TIL that in 2013 a grad student accidentally debunked an influential economics paper. He was trying to replicate the paper’s math for a school project and couldn’t, because it was completely wrong.
wk7J TIL the creator of Budweiser had a few drops of the beer placed on the tongues of every one of his newborn sons just hours after birth. They tasted Budweiser before their own mother’s milk.