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TIL the last monolingual Irish speaker died in 1998
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TIL the worlds smallest concept gasoline engine is 15 mm long 5 mm wide and 3 mm tall. It will produce 11 watts at up to 50,000 rpm’s and it could power an LCD watch for two years on a single drop of lighter fluid.
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TIL Soy sauce contains alcohol. Kikkoman Soy Sauce, for example, is now banned in the UAE as it contains alcohol.
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TIL that Timothy Tyler was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole at 25, for selling LSD to a police informant.
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TIL Japans current emperor until 2019 was the son of Hirohito
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TIL in 1817 an English man named Abraham Thornton successfully avoided a murder charge by demanding "trial by battle." It turned out that the practice was still technically allowed under the law despite having not been used for hundreds of years. Parliament finally abolished it one year later.