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TIL the last monolingual Irish speaker died in 1998

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8m04 TIL That the FBI suspected “It’s A Wonderful Life” was Communist propaganda when first released
R7Gvj TIL Senegal and other African countries are building a wall of trees across the width of Africa to stop the advancement of the Saharan desert.
EO6X TIL that diamonds have very little resale value, and we believe that they are valuable because.of a very successful advertising campaign that started in the late 1930s
PQ0J TIL in 1997 physicists at the University of Geneva sent photons seven miles in opposite directions and demonstrated that interfering with one provoked an instantaneous response in the other.
9YDVG TIL that despite being aligned with Nazi Germany in WWII, Finnish Jews were not persecuted by the government of Finland. The Finnish Army set up the only field synagogue on the Eastern Front and Finnish Jews fought with Germans in support of the Axis Powers.