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TIL strawberries are technically neither fruit nor berry

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6E6ol TIL in 1989 a Russian fighter jet pilot had to eject from his airplane causing the aircraft to fly pilotless over Western Europe and crashed into a solitary house in Belgium killing a 19-year old man that was taking a nap for his finals
Wk1vL TIL during World War I, both sides used fake trees as spy posts. To make them, engineers would find a dead tree, then take sketches of it and make a detailed replica. At night, they would then would tear out the original tree and replace it with the fake.
gleA TIL that according to the FBI Director, the FBI is having a hard time filling positions to help tackle cyber crimes because a lot of the nation’s top computer programmers and hacking gurus are also fond of marijuana.
kBMm TIL in 1968 Japan, a car driven by bank employees was pulled over by a motorcycle cop claiming the car hadbeen riggedwith a bomb. The cop got under the car to defuse the device. Everybody ran when the car started to smoke. Then the “cop” just drove the car away. The 300M Yen robbery remains unsolved
R5Nk1 TIL about the Readymix logo geoglyph, a 3.2 km × 1.6 km (2.0 mi × 0.99 mi) logo carved into the ground in outback Australia in 1965. For a lone time of it was the largest such signage of its kind in the world.