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TIL English is the only language that has more non-native speakers than native speakers.

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mxprp TIL that botox is the deadliest substance on earth, a few kilos of it enough to kill every human on the planet. In cosmetics, it is given in quantities a billionth of a gram large. It is also the most expensive substance on earth, costing £100trillion per kilo.
VBp08 TIL handling salmon in suspicious circumstances is technically illegal in the UK under the Salmon Act 1986
aw1Qb TIL An ostrich's brain is smaller than its eyeball!
xVEyk TIL of a "pineberry", a white hybrid of the strawberry. It looks just like one, but has the taste of a pineapple. It had been "rescued" by Dutch farmers, and later on, commercially sold in the 2010's. At the moment, they're grown (only) in Japan. They're ~$10.00 per berry.
9YBYp TIL in 2017 the 2nd generation Vauxhall Tigra was the car most likely to fail its inspection - over 58% of them ended up failing.