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TIL Bananas are berries, but strawberries aren't

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p8KWN TIL that Oktoberfest often has the majority of its days in September because the festival is usually 16 days long and its last day is traditionally on the 1st Sunday in October. In years where that day falls before October 3rd, it is extended to commemorate German Unity Day.
VMb1p TIL that we owe the iconic Star Wars' opening text to Brian De Palma. After seeing an early cut of A New Hope, he strongly complained to George Lucas, calling the movie "non-sense". The idea for an introductive crawling text came from the ensuing exchange.
yVQPa TIL in Rwanda on the last Saturday of every month, everyone gets together in their neighbourhoods to do a collective clean-up - roads are swept, rubbish collected. It is called Umuganda, which in Kinyarwanda means "Community Work".
6EZM8 TIL that a man from Australia survived a car accident, buys a lottery ticket shortly after 15 days in a coma and wins. The news finds out, asks him to reenact the ticket purchase, he wins a larger amount than the first on live TV.
1PQP TIL that smaller creatures experience time much faster than we do, so to them we seem to be moving in slow motion.