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TIL a banana is a berry.

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VklZ TIL that in 1896 Auburn ROTC cadets greased the skids of a railway track before a football game. The train with the incoming team couldn’t stop and slid halfway to the next town, forcing them to walk 5 miles to the game possibly contributing to their 45-0 loss.
10jX TIL the “Don’t Mess With Texas” slogan was created for an anti-littering campaign
rNJ0d TIL about Archie Bunchien, who was acquitted in a 1996 quadruple homicide in Houston. Bunchien shot four people to death after one of the group came to his door late at night and punched him over a prior insult. The jury foreman said "Anybody who pounds on someone's door at 3 a.m. is up to no good."
oBBZo TIL The opening flamenco guitar intro heard on the Beatles track, "The Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill" was actually a prerecorded setting played from a Mellotron synthesizer.
pYwoO TIL that in an effort to save $43.5, the Canadian Mint mailed the dies of the new $1 coin via a discount courier over using an armored car- which were promptly stolen and have never been found. This would lead to the adoption of the Loonie design as an emergency replacement.