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LkJQP TIL we know the exact date the Dalmatian language (one of the Romance languages) went extinct: June 10th, 1898. It is the day the last speaker of the language, Tuone Udaina, died in an explosion.
6OPY TIL Lin-Manuel Miranda, creator of Hamilton, wrote an entire song in the Huttese language from Star Wars. It was the song that played in Maz’s Kantina in The Force Awakens.
Z8lmv TIL it is said that René Descartes René constructed an automaton in his daughter's likeness after she died of scarlet fever; only to have the robot Francine smashed and thrown overboard as a work of Satan during a voyage at sea.
VMBeD TIL there's a drug called Antabuse. It helps recovering alcoholics by making them very ill if they drink a small amount of alcohol.
awZL0 TIL The stars in the Paramount logo honor the 22 actors and actresses put under contract in 1916 by film producer and founder Adolph Zukor