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TIL: zucchini and corn are fruits

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rPjW TIL that New England is the least religious region of the US, despite its Puritan past
VM8ND TIL Germany 'acquired' an entire Ancient Greek temple, dismantled it, shipped it back to Berlin and re-assembled it there as a museum.
XEb66 TIL that the New York Times has made some truly terrible predictions over the years, from Hitler being “not genuine” about anti-semitism, to approximating in 1903 that it would take between 1 - 10 million years before humans would create airplanes.
v1bnD TIL the common expression "OK" didn't exist prior to 1839 and was coined as a joke. In the writing of the time it was popular to make fun abbreviations similar to our OMG or even TIL, and "OK" was one of them.
DneJ TIL Centipedes always have an odd-number of pairs of legs, meaning you will never find one born with exactly 100 legs.