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TIL green peppers are unripe red peppers AND bell peppers are considered berries

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LQM8Q TIL that the Indian mathematician and astronomer Baudhayana, who lived around 800 BCE, wrote the Baudhayana Sulba Sutra, which describes the construction of various geometric shapes using a rope known as a "sulba” with precise geometric measurements, the Pythagorean theorem, area of a circle.
lka TIL that two stars of Whose Line is it anyway (Wayne and Colin) are making a new show
be50 TIL that minutes after John Lennon was shot, Howard Cosell fought fellow commentator Frank Gifford to interrupt ABC’s Monday Night Football and announce the news to their live TV audience.
OG4La TIL that in ancient Rome, they used a punishment called "Poena cullei" for patricide. The condemned person was sewn into a sack with live animals such as dogs, snakes, monkeys, and chickens, then thrown into water.
l7Y1G TIL Doris Miller joined the Navy as a mess assistant, one option for a black man. During the Pearl Harbor attack he saved several lives and successfully manned an anti-aircraft gun with no training, until the ship started to sink. He was killed in 1943. An aircraft carrier is named in his honor.