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TIL that the question of if a tomato is a fruit or a vegetable made it to the Supreme Court in the case Nix v. Hedden (1893). They decided that, for tariff purposes, it is a vegetable.

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WBgL TIL the movie ‘Charade’ (1963) entered the public domain immediately upon release because Universal Pictures published it with an invalid copyright notice
X0gbX TIL the King of Bhutan is known as "Druk Gyalpo" which translates to "Dragon King." Additionally, many Bhutanese people use the endonym "Drukpa" to identify themselves, which means "Dragon People."
myGO TIL that Werner Klemperer, who played the bumbling Col. Klink on Hogan’s Heroes, had a clause in his contract stipulating that Klink would always be portrayed as a fool, and never be victorious over Hogan, or he would quit the show.
xvn1 TIL There is growing evidence the Amazon Rainforest was actually planned and maintained by indigenous populations by improving the soil and increasing biodiversity
pYEWb TIL that at age 16, Einstein took the entrance exam for the college, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, and he failed it. The language and history sections were the sections he struggled on. He did well on the math and science sections.