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TIL The Supreme Court unanimously decided that tomatoes were vegetables

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Me54a TIL that besides white, cotton can grow in shades of green, blue, red, brown, and tan
aw5Bb TIL about Femtoengineering, which is technology 6 orders of magnitude smaller than nanotech. At this scale, engineering utilises quarks & strings to manipulate atoms. If achieved, could lead towards macro-scale teleportation, as well as breakthroughs in force field generation and antigravity tech.
8aWL4 TIL three 13 year old girls submitted a script for "Tiny Toon Adventures". Producer Steven Spielberg was so impressed that he invited the girls to Hollywood to work on the episode and paid them $3,000. This later inspired a Simpsons episode where Bart and Lisa write an Itchy & Scratchy cartoon.
R7AE7 TIL that Benjamin Franklin pioneered the Pros and Cons list
rY7x TIL young Caucasian men inherently deal with alcohol better than young Caucasian women, but this is reversed in middle-age.