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TIL Korean is a “language isolate”, a language with no known relatives. It has more speakers than every other isolate combined.

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go7X TIL Pope Francis has only one lung.
b9AVZ TIL in 1998, a 10-year-old girl in Austria was dragged into a car and kidnapped. The case remained unsolved until she knocked on someone's door in 2006 saying: "I am Natascha Kampusch." She had just escaped the secret cellar of a local technician that abused her for 8 years.
x7n0 TIL that the dinosaur noises in Jurassic Park were made from recordings of tortoises having sex.
VBQr4 TIL about Christmas eye, a seasonal epidemic of corneal inflammation occurring in a particular part of Australia, the pain of which is ‘torturous’ and ‘on par with giving birth’
R54Z9 TIL Oddjob is average height in the James Bond movie Goldfinger (even taller in the novel). The only reason he’s a dwarf in Goldeneye 64 is because the developers confused him with Nick Nack from The Man With the Golden Gun.