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TIL strawberries are technically neither fruit nor berry

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xNng TIL: California was building a desalination plant (makes ocean water drinkable) during a 7 year drought but stopped when it started raining again.
X0vk8 TIL the reason you can’t go up in the Statue of Liberty’s torch is because of shrapnel from an explosion caused by Germans in 1916 to sabotage munitions for the Allied powers.
9pj7 TIL Bear Grylls once rowed naked in a homemade bathtub for 22 miles down the Thames river to raise money for a buddy who lost his legs in a climbing accident.
d8yvZ TIL that the live penguins that starred in Batman Returns (1992) had their own refrigerated dressing rooms and a swimming pool. The set was kept cold for them. Danny DeVito was the only one who was comfortable, because of the extensive face prosthetics, heavy padding, and heavy coat he had to wear.
lAPr TIL that between 1977 and 1979, New Zealand offered scenic Antarctic flights. They stopped when one plane crashed into an Antarctic volcano killing all 257 people on the flight. The wreckage still remains at the crash site.