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TIL English accounts for about 52% of the Internet

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X7RP TIL that the series Harry Potter was the most banned book so far of the 21st century
OoPXa TIL that rice paddies are only underwater because weeds can't grow there, and it does nothing to help the rice grow.
yg8w TIL Arunachalam Muruganantham invented a simple method to produce low-cost sanitary pads in India. It took 4.5 years, his wife & mother left, & he was expelled from his village.“Luckily I’m not educated.If you act like an illiterate man, your learning will never stop. You have no fear of the future”
YXxx TIL that early balloons were made from animal intestines.
Rp5l TIL Israel admitted to administering immigrating Ethiopian women with a “long-acting” contraception without their knowledge; with the ironic goal of keeping Israel “pure”.