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TIL that from 1643 to 1774-over 130 years-France had only 2 kings: Louie XIV and XV, the first and 20th longest reigning monarchs back to back.

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v1QpR TIL of the unlucky voyage of Soyuz 23, a Soviet spacecraft that unintentionally "splashed-down" in a frozen lake. They spent nine hours in the cabin waiting to be lifted out of the water, and an additional two hours before the responders realized they were alive inside
P1KoV TIL out of the world's 2781 billionaires only 19 are black, 8 of them being Oprah, LeBron James, Michael Jordan, Magic Johnson, Jay-Z, Rihanna, Tiger Woods and Tyler Perry
OGEAL TIL Tom Six who is the creator behind The Human Centipede Trilogy, was an original director for the Dutch TV series Big Brother. Big Brother became an international franchise with over 508 seasons in over 63 franchise countries and regions.
loX81 TIL If Earth stopped spinning suddenly, the atmosphere would still be in motion with the Earth's original 1100 mile per hour rotation speed at the equator. All of the land masses would be scoured clean of anything not attached to bedrock.
9YLR7 TIL Rudolf Mößbauer, age 32, won the 1961 Nobel Prize in physics for his discovery of the Mößbauer effect named after him. During the Cold War he was one of the first to organize Seminars with Soviet physicists, long before this became feasible for US colleagues