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TIL apples, peaches, and raspberries are all members of the rose family.

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4Xx6X TIL Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife were assassinated on June 28th 1914, an event which led to the beginning of the war. Strangely, the Archduke's number plate read: A 111 118, a series that can be read as, Armistice 11 November '18.
E1evo TIL rapper B.o.B. believes the earth is flat and released a disstrack about astrophysicist Neil DeGrasse Tyson, which references his beliefs in many other conspiracy theories.
Wor8 TIL: since 2006 US retail companies have cut 1,000,000 full time positions and added 500,000 part time positions.
1arlV TIL that lab analysis of Mexican Coca Cola shows it contains no sucrose i.e. "real sugar" and instead has a blend of fructose and glucose similar to US coke
j6wja TIL despite the PS3 being out for four months by then, God of War 2 (2007) was released only for the PS2. Studio Santa Monica's justification to the Sony heads for doing this were that they wouldn't have to play catch-up to be PS3 compatible, and a PS2 release was accessible to far more people.