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TIL The High Treason Incident was a socialist-anarchist plot to assassinate the Japanese Emperor in 1910

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5wNB TIL The singer-songwriter Alice Cooper pays yearly royalties to the members of the band, Alice Cooper, for the right to use the name commercially as it was originally the copyrighted band name before he adopted it as his own.
5odr TIL that a gallon of gasoline has 31,000,000 calories.
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7vlL TIL a man survived Nazi Doctor Josef Mengele removing his kidney without anesthesia and survived a gas chamber as he was the 201st person in line for a chamber of 200 people.
md6y TIL that jams are made from fruit, while jellies are made from juice. Preserves have chunks of fruit, conserves have dried fruit or nuts, and marmalades have peel and pulp. Fruit butters are slow cooked to a smooth consistency.