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TIL Bananas are classified as true berries, strawberries are not

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GYJR5 TIL of Grabel's Law. It goes: "Two is not equal to three, not even for large values of two." Apparently, a professor named Grabel stated this during class, and his students christened it as Grabel's Law.
YpgYG TIL struggling musician Jonathan Cain called his dad and asked him for a loan, or if he should give up on his dream and come home. His dad lend him the money and told him "Don't stop believing." He soon joined a band called Journey and gave them their signature song using his dad's words.
neZ8b TIL: Before the year 2000 problem, caused by storing only 2 digits for the year, there was the year 1970 problem because only one digit was stored for years from 1960 to 1969
QJmZp TIL The peacock mantis shrimp has the hardest punch in the animal kingdom, relative to its small size. In fact, if humans were as strong as these miraculous creatures, a person could throw a baseball into the orbit of the Earth.
ANJGw TIL: Switzerland does not have an official capital but Bern is the de facto capital due to its central location among other reasons.