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TIL Queen Victoria was the longest reigning monarch ever.

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NxLN TIL that Al Gore’s wife, Tipper Gore, wrote a book and founded an organization that advocated for censoring rock music and cited Dungeons and Dragons as a path leading children to kill.
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