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TIL That Only One Plane Was Allowed to Fly After the Flights were Grounded on Sept 11th 2001. Due to a man needing more antivenom from the most venomous snake in the world

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KOMka TIL Heinz ketchup can't legally be called 'ketchup' in Israel because it doesn't contain enough tomato paste.
j6jYj TIL A brown dwarf star is 13 to 80 times the size of Jupiter but doesn't have enough mass to fuse hydrogen (they can fuse deuterium and massive ones can fuse lithium). Because of the lack of energy some brown dwarfs put out little to no light and can have a surface temperature as low as -23C (-10F).
Zp0la TIL Apple is not only Samsung's biggest competitor, but also their biggest customer
gMayA Around 1 million people in Ireland—as well as 20,000 people in the United States—can speak Irish. It’s an ancient and unfamiliar-looking language in the Celtic group, making it a linguistic cousin of other ancient languages like Welsh, Scots, Manx, and Breton. To English speakers though, it’s a tough language to master. It has a relatively complex grammar that sees words inflected in an array of different contexts ignored in English. It uses a different word order from English that places the verb, rather than the subject, at the head of the clause. And it uses an alphabet traditionally comprising just 18 letters, so words are often pronounced completely differently from what an English speaker might expect.
M7YB7 TIL of a murderer who was captured four years later because he had the murder scene tattooed on his breast.