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TIL strawberries are technically neither fruit nor berry

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oBVgr TIL that tint is a mixture of a color with white, which reduces darkness, shade is a mixture with black, which increases darkness, tone is produced either by mixing a color with grey (or by both tinting and shading), and hue is how much red, blue and yellow it has.