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TIL humans and strawberries share 60% of their dna

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Mewmb TIL that the difference between freestone and clingstone peaches is literally how much the fruit’s flesh clings to the pit (stone). With freestone peaches, the fruit easily pulls away from the pit, while clingstone peach flesh stubbornly clings to the pit.
X0rVR TIL: Young children make 'scale errors' where they genuinely try to use an object that is inappropriately sized. Such as trying to sit and slide down a toy slide. And it's inversely related to pretend play
bA8p TIL the act of self-mastery of a subject without teachers is called autodidacticism
4XroN TIL in 2009 a man in England broke into 72-year-old Frank Corti’s home and tried to rob him with a knife, but the retired boxer and Royal Engineer gave him a black eye and bloodied face instead.
LkbQQ TIL of Cathedral High School, a small school in El Paso, that was revoked of its Notre Dame Leprechaun logo after going unnoticed by the college for over 86 years.