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TIL that Australia has lost a war against Emus

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JZm8 TIL that tomatoes, although botanically a fruit, are legally a vegetable as a result of the 1893 Supreme Court case Nix v. Hedden, as “they are seen as vegetables because they are usually eaten as a main course instead of being eaten as a dessert.”
YNxW TIL North Korea supposedly has a literacy rate of 100%
9Y0v6 TIL US general, Douglas MacArthur, had two of the worst military disasters in American history happen under his command: the largest surrender of US forces (Battle of Bataan, WWII) and the longest retreat of US forces (The retreat back to the 38th parallel during the Korean War)
X05BQ TIL that 80 French parliamentarians voted against the Constitutional Law of 1940, which established the authoritarian rule of Philippe Pétain. They are known today as Les Quatre-Vingts (the Eighty or Vichy 80).
R7mwa TIL Johnny Weismuller played Tarzan in 12 movies, after which he starred in 13 Jungle Jim movies, widely regarded as Tarzan ripoffs.