Mind-blowing Facts That Literally Nobody Has Heard Before

My Brain Cannot Handle This

Buckle up, because you're about to get your mind blown. Strawberries aren't actually berries, and by the definition of what a berry is, bananas technically fall into the berry family. We didn't ask for this information, but we have it now.

The More You Know

The first American woman to go to medical school was admitted as a joke. Geneva Medical School thought it was joke when Elizabeth Blackwell applied to attend 1847. She graduated in 1849, started her own practice, and opened an infirmary for the poor.
People write love letters to trees in Australia via email.
Four times more people speak English as a second language than as a native one.
The Nobel Committee declined to award the Nobel Peace Prize in 1948 because "there was no suitable living candidate." This was meant as tribute to Mahatma Gandhi, who was assassinated earlier that year without receiving the Prize.

Post originally appeared on Upbeat News.