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TIL Bananas are berries, but strawberries aren't

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p8kRO TIL in 2014, New York City had $16 Million in unpaid parking tickets from foreign diplomats. The largest offender was Egypt, with about $1.9 Million. Diplomatic immunity is the main reason that those tickets remained outstanding.
pOMN TIL that holes in Swiss cheese are actually called ‘eyes’. Swiss cheese without eyes is known as 'blind’.
JVkV TIL George Carlin was put on the FBI watchlist for doing an impersonation of J. Edgar Hoover on “The Jackie Gleason Show”.
J1jVB TIL that the Alabama State Constitution, at 376,000 words, is the longest known constitution in the world. It is 4.5x longer than any other state constitution, 3x longer than India's (the longest national constitution), and almost 50x longer than the US constitution.
YXoA TIL That a Subaru Plant Throws Away Less Rubbish in 1 Year Than a Family of 4 Does in 1 Day