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TIL Sobhuza II was king of Swaziland from 1899 to 1982 which is the longest reign of monarch in history

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kg1e TIL Lucille Ball saved Star Trek from being cancelled in 1964.
rRv1e TIL that Sam Houston, famous for being president of the Republic of Texas, refused to join the Confederate States of America, predicting that they would lose the civil war. Instead he pushed for the re establishment of an independent Texas.
4eGX TIL Even though the barbed wire fence between Germany and the Czech Republic was torn down 20 years ago, Red Deer still refuse to cross the border
Z849G TIL that meme of DMX crying is from an interview done with VH1, where he admits that his mother never told him that she loved him. " You know what I think a lot of people lose sight of the fact that no matter how strong you are as a man no matter how tough you are we all need to be somebody's baby."
xwaw TIL that Robin Williams saved the life of Jerry Reed on the set of The Survivors. Robin went to Jerry’s trailer and found Jerry groggy, complaining of a terrible headache. It turns out that Jerry’s trailer had a carbon monoxide leak; Had Robin not pulled him out, Jerry would have died.