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TIL a banana is a berry.

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P19oG TIL that four drivers were killed over the 11 races of the 1958 Formula 1 season. The eventual world champion was also killed in a crash shortly after the season ended.
4XYka TIL that whilst he ultimately lost the 1896 Presidential Election, 36 year old William Jennings Bryan became the youngest person in American History to win an electoral vote, winning 176 of the 447 Electoral Votes at the time.
GAQB1 TIL in 1986, Lake Nyos had a limnic CO₂ eruption (a rare but natural disaster) which killed 1,746 humans. No flies surrounded the bodies because the insects had also perished.
leXB TIL Mike Myers was sued by Universal studios for 3.8 million because he backed out of his “Dieter” contract, saying he didn’t want to cheat moviegoers with a terrible script. Instead of paying he starred in The Cat in the Hat
Qn06 TIL due to irregularities in Earth’s rotation speed, clocks sometimes strike 23:59:60 to stay in sync with a day’s real duration, essentially creating minutes with 61 seconds.