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TIL Queen Victoria was the longest reigning monarch ever.

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YbMW TIL: In 1962, an author named Kerry Wendell Thornley published a book called The Idle Warriors, which has the historical distinction of being the only book written about Lee Harvey Oswald before Kennedy’s assassination in 1963.
kOJd4 In a roundabout way, yes. But first we must heat that atmosphere, since the surface of Mars is about –58°F. “We know how to warm planets; we’re doing it right now,” says Robert Zubrin, the president of the nonprofit Mars Society, a group devoted to Martian exploration.
Qxx9 TIL the Stoned Ape Theory of human evolution hypothesizes that psychedelics transformed Homo erectus to Homo sapiens
NEw8 TIL The Boudin bakery in San Francisco, has been making sourdough bread for 166 years and every loaf of sourdough bread they make has a portion of the original “mother dough” from 1849 in it.
EgdP TIL if federal employees run out of sick time, they can receive leave-time donations from any other federal employee. For example, a postal carrier in Alabama can give accrued leave time to a budget analyst at the Dept. of Energy in DC.