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TIL Strawberries and Raspberries are NOT Berries, but tomatoes, eggplants, bananas and pineapples are

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lOZA TIL that there are sea nomads, whole tribes of people who spend almost all of their lives at sea.
rNXAw TIL about the Fallen Astronaut, a 3.5 in/8.9 cm aluminum sculpture. It is a stylized figure of an astronaut in a spacesuit, intended to commemorate the astronauts and cosmonauts who have died in the advancement of space exploration. It was placed on the Moon by the crew of Apollo 15 in 1971
KObww TIL Marvel's near collapse led to dominance. In The 90’s they desperately sold film rights to their characters for operating capital. A few hits(Blade & X-Men) led studios to consider the comic movie viable. Failure by most caused many of the rights to return to Marvel, who created Marvel Studios.
QW66 TIL after Micheal Durant(the pilot captured during the Black Hawk Down incident) was captured, they played Hell’s Bells over loud speakers attached to helicopters to let him know they were still looking for him.
O8dg TIL in the 1960s an Indo-American expedition tried to place a nuclear-powered monitoring device on a peak in the Himalayas, but it was lost in an avalanche. 5 kilograms of plutonium remain unaccounted for, somewhere near the source of the Ganges River.