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TIL - Despite selling over 80 million albums worldwide Enya has yet to undergo a single concert tour.

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gMl08 TIL Standard Arabic, the Arabic taught in a majority of schools, is based off of the language Prophet Mohammad spoke. It is a language that nobody naturally speaks, and is preserved through formal education and news broadcasts. Egyptian Arabic is the most widely-understood dialect
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KYG14 TIL the 1883 eruption of Krakotoa which killed 36,417 people was so loud it was heard 4800KM away and the sound wave travelled the earth over 3 times
4kp8J TIL that the only sound recordings in existence of someone born in the 18th century speaking, are of Helmuth Von Moltke the German field commander.
p8xEb TIL, the largest IMAX screen is in Melbourne, Australia and is 105x75 feet.