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TIL The apple variety "Red Delicious" only exists because the unwanted apple seedling managed to regrow after being discarded.

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Lkylp TIL that Plutonium is so toxic that if 500g of plutonium dust released into the air, it would be sufficient to kill nearly 2 million people. It is just due to heavy metal poison effects, not radioactivity. This makes the toxicity of plutonium roughly equivalent to that of nerve gas.
BrVLr TIL of the term "paraprosdokian" - a figure of speech in which the latter part of a phrase is surprising in a way that causes the reader or listener to reinterpret the first part. An example would be Mitch Hedberg's famous one-liner "I haven't slept for ten days, because that would be too long."
Y7jkW TIL King crabs are not true crabs. They walk on 6 legs with 2 claws instead of 8 legs with 2 claws. They're more closely related to hermit crabs.
OGYQg TIL IKEA is the 10th largest food seller outside of the U.S., earning approximately $2.5 billion annually from its in-store restaurants.
PYMPZ TIL The Amityville Horror is an admitted hoax, confessed to by the lawyer that assisted in fabricating the story; The motive for which, was to gain a new trial for his client Butch DeFeo (the man who murdered his family whilst they slept in the house)