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TIL Queen Victoria was the longest reigning monarch ever.
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TIL that Gianni Agnelli, the head of Fiat, controlled 4.4% of Italy's GDP, 3.1% of its industrial workforce and 16.5% of its industrial investment in research and was the richest man in modern Italian history.
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TIL that ELO's Out of the Blue, a double album comprised of 16 songs, was written in just 2 weeks.
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TIL that censors in Tsarist Russia did not censor Das Kapital upon its publication because they believed that "very few people in Russia will read it, and even fewer will understand it."
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TIL that Mississippi had no official state flag from 1904 to 2001 due to a legislative oversight. In 1906, Mississippi repealed all general laws that were not reenacted by the new code. The flag statute was inadvertently omitted.
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TIL people who cook from printed recipes are less likely to have a high BMI than those who get recipes from cooking shows or social media