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TIL that bananas are berries, but strawberries aren’t.

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xValg TIL of H. Beatty Chadwick, the man who holds the record for the longest time in contempt of court. After serving 14 years for refusing to disclose funds in a civil matter, Chadwick was released because the court decided that his incarceration had "lost it's coercive effect."
WgjB TIL “Prior to the first nuclear bomb detonation in July of 1945, isotopes such as strontium-90 and cesium-137 simply did not exist in nature.” Pieces of art and bottles of wine created before 1945 can be tested for cesium, if they contain traces of cesium they would almost certainly be fake.
167A8 TIL In 1940s and 50s Quaker Oats and MIT conducted experiments by feeding ceareal containing radioactive iron and calcium. This was conducted to prove that the nutrients in the oat meal travelled throughout the body. A $1.85 million settlement was made in 1998 for the victims.
O6Xg TIL that Tyrannosaurus Rex is only the 14th largest predator to have ever been on Earth. The sperm whale is actually the largest.
xVDLD TIL that the University of Chicago economists used to propose a plan, dubbed The Chicago Plan, to limit the power and independence of the Federal Reserve. This plan was drafted during the wake of the Great Depression