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TIL Queen Victoria was the longest reigning monarch ever.

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M7pkK TIL The phrase "the dog that didn't bark" comes from the Sherlock Holmes short story "Silver Blaze," where the absence of a guard dog's barking during a crime leads Holmes to deduce that the perpetrator was someone the dog knew, not a stranger.
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