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

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e090n TIL that prog-rock group Emerson, Lake & Palmer have a live album called "Live at the Mar Y Sol Festival". In the original liner notes, it says the festival happened in "Vega Baja, San Juan." However, Vega Baja is not in San Juan. Also, the festival took place in Manati, a different area altogether.
jKdQ TIL: The Soviet Union held it’s own version of the Olympic Games in which anyone could participate. The number of participants one year reached 90 million people.
oRkLA TIL In 1993, James Scott purposely damaged a levee and caused a massive flood of the Mississippi River only to stall his wife from coming home so that he could party
8avp8 TIL Many Hanna-Barbera characters had collars in order to make them easier (and cheaper) to animate. Redrawing only their heads in each frame when they spoke.
j64oj TIL about the Boötes Void - a sphere in the universe that contains only 60 galaxies in a cylinder through the middle, when typically there would be around 2,000.