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

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P1Mdn TIL The world's oceans contain 20 million tons of gold!
5jjk TIL that the UN requested Japan ban anime, manga and games that depicted any sexual violence towards women. Japan responded by saying no, as firstly, it wasn’t real and secondly, many of the creators were women themselves and it would do the opposite and instead create sexism toward women.
b95Vj TIL about the Devil's Chair, a graveside bench in the cemetery in Cassadaga, Florida. According to local legend, an unopened beer left on the chair will be empty by morning. The Devil is sometimes said to appear to anyone bold enough to sit in the chair.
RX7 TIL: Up to half of the world population is infected with Toxoplasmosis, a parasitical infection possibly linked to depression, anxiety and schizophrenia.
xAeB TIL that In September 1989, British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher pleaded with Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev not to let the Berlin Wall fall and confided that she wanted the Soviet leader to do what he could to stop it.