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TIL that strawberries are not berries, but bananas are.

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46a TIL that when a supermarket tabloid accused a U.S. Senator of being an alien from another planet, his office responded to the allegations in the Associated Press with the phrase “klaatu barada nikto”.
aanL TIL: When you speak inside your mind small muscles in your throat mimic the formation of each word, and NASA is working on a machine that would detect these muscle movements and transcribe them to words.
Zl7D TIL that the Queen can de-knight someone, the last person de-knighted was a financier who participated in a scheme to inflate the share price of Guinness
WkLEY TIL 90% of Chinese teenagers and young adults suffer from myopia (short-sightedness), up from 10-20% 60 years ago
XEQnD TIL that there is a company attempting to heal aging and noise-related permanent hearing loss by utilizing the same regenerative properties naturally found in our intestines