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Today I learned that eggplant is considered a berry

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KOJYR TIL there's a legal strategy called the "Shaggy Defence", where in the face of direct evidence of guilt, the defendant simply claims that it wasn't them.
8a60V TIL the US minted a quarter For 2020 with bats on it. First time bats have appeared on a US coin.
b9wwp TIL that the nuclear warning systems for both US and Russia aim to detect a nuclear weapons before they hit the target so that a retaliation can be launched before their own weapons are destroyed. The system has given at least 22 false alarms which could have caused a nuclear war.
KYG14 TIL the 1883 eruption of Krakotoa which killed 36,417 people was so loud it was heard 4800KM away and the sound wave travelled the earth over 3 times
JBN1 TIL you can tell if a baby is self-aware by drawing a red dot on his/her forehead in front of a mirror