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

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1Gj8 TIL That an asteroid is on course to pass in between the earth in the moon and has a chance to hit satellites and possibly even Earth itself in February 2013
W7OKX TIL S. Korea has some of the strictest drug laws in the world. Citizens can be imprisoned 5 years for using cannabis, even in a legal area.
yV8Le TIL of Auto-brewery syndrome - A condition where the gut produces alcohol and makes you drunk
WyEB TIL that famous philosopher Bertrand Russell contemplated suicide as a teenager but chose against it because he wanted to learn more about mathematics.
45Bo TIL that President Lincoln essentially bribed Congress to outlaw slavery by offering lame-duck congressmen cushy government jobs in a then-legal form of corruption known as the patronage system