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TIL Dr.Pepper was released in 1885, one year before Coca-Cola

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yQvww TIL that the town of Monowi in Nebraska is the smallest town in the USA with only one resident. Elsie Eiler (84), she is the mayor, clerk, librarian and bar owner. She pays taxes to herself, gives herself her own liquor licenses and votes for herself in municipal elections.
0GPN TIL in 1880 the age of consent in Delaware was 7.
d8wwK TIL Charles Manson tried out Scientology and subsequently declared it as "too crazy"
ANoKg TIL Thatcher's Techbase is a mod for the video game Doom II where Margaret Thatcher, "one of humanity's greatest threats", rises from the dead, leading the player to descend into the tenth circle of Hell, the United Kingdom, in order to kill her and send her back to Hell.
KOLK9 TIL about iridodonesis a condition in which the iris (coloured part of the eye) vibrates during eye movements. Upon moving the eye rapidly, the iris can appear to ‘dance’, or ‘tremble’ (tremulousness).