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

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YpPrG TIL that modern genetics was discovered/invented in 1856-63 by an Austrian monk who overturned millennia of misunderstanding by simply running a scientific experiment (on 28,000 plants); yet his work was ignored for 40 years and nearly lost.
5YWQn TIL that Pizza Hut has sponspored a lot of anime.
b1gp TIL The USA won the last ever Olympic gold medal for rugby in 1924 and are therefore technically still reigning champions.
rroW TIL there is a farm in the middle of Kansas to which 600 million IP addresses are registered due to a glitch in the IP mapping software which maps them close to the geographical centre of the USA.
5GEn TIL Duff McKagan, former bassist of Guns N’ Roses, claimed that Duff Beer on The Simpsons was named after him. Matt Groening, creator of The Simpsons, called the claim “absurd”.