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TIL “bananas are berries, but strawberries aren’t” because, botanically, bananas grow from one flower with a single ovary and meet the berry criteria, while strawberries are classified as “aggregate fruits” made from multiple ovaries

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D66r TIL table beer was served in Belgian schools until the 1980s. It has been proposed to re-introduce this low alcohol beer (via http://ift.tt/2w7Pmvg
b9NQp TIL that in the away team dressing room at Chelsea FC's stadium, the coat-hangers are very high up to strain the players' limbs; the tactics board is at the back of the door, which is a fire exit and must stay open; and the mirrors give players the impression of being smaller than they actually are
adQA TIL that female bonobos rub their clitorises together every 2 hours on average
4Xxj6 TIL Astronomer Thomas Harriot observed the Sun directly through a telescope and left nearly 200 drawings of sunspots from the period 1610–1612. To protect his eyes, he took advantage of mist and fog to dim the Sun's brightness
JklQ TIL before the 1900’s, it was theorised that birds slept at the bottom of lakes or migrated to the moon for the winter.