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TIL pumpkins are technically considered berries

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M8OK TIL that when the Nazi Party held its first book burnings, one of the works destroyed was an 1821 play by Heinrich Heine containing the famous phrase “Where they burn books, they will also in the end burn people.”
OGXBe TIL of the 4 students who passed their final exams in Einstein's department, he got the lowest mark & was the only one who wasn't offered a job as an assistant teacher at their alma mater. After graduation, he struggled to find teaching work for 2 years. So a friend got him a job as a patent clerk.
7rKQL TIL in WW2 the Nazis were thinking of ruining the British economy by dropping counterfeit bank notes, causing inflation.
GYpJ5 TIL Vanna White, the letter presser lady on Wheel of Fortune makes 8 million a year. Her net worth is 140 million.
epwO5 TIL that all Shiba Inu alive today are descended from one single Shiba, "Ishi," born in 1930.