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TIL strawberries are technically neither fruit nor berry

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ZpyVY TIL Ohio has license plates reading "Birthplace of Aviation" and North Carolina reads "First in Flight" because the two states both claim the Wright Brothers as their own. The Wrights performed the first controlled, powered flight in Kitty Hawk, N.C. but built their plane in Ohio
nWRG TIL The office of President of the US can be transferred to the Vice President if a majority of the cabinet votes that the sitting President is incapable of his duties. In theory, the cabinet could peacefully stage a coup and overthrow the president.
vvBx TIL of a man who joined the Marines as a private, got promoted to Sergeant and then became an officer as a Lieutenant, then got discharged, enlisted as a Private again, then became an officer again, and ended up being a Lieutenant General
VXR8 TIL that in the Bible, God sent two bears to murder 42 children because they had mocked a man for being bald.
EbVP TIL that Air Marshal David Grahame Donald once fell from his airplane while attempting a new maneuver and miraculously the plane continued the loop o ly for him to land on the wing and pull himself back into the cockpit.