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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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0wN61 TIL During Tool's concert at Garden Pavillion, owned by L. Ron Hubbard of the Church of Scientology, Maynard James Keenan "spent most of the show baa-ing like a sheep at the audience."
EgVnx TIL Lake Compounce in Bristol, CT is the oldest continuously operating amusement park in North America. It began in 1847 as a picnic park around a lake with public swimming, rowing and waterfront concerts, adding CT's first 10-pin bowling alley with adjoining pool tables the following year.
9Yr5G TIL Audi had to use more durable horns in Indian-market cars, as their normal horns would have been unable to cope with the amount of honking Indian drivers do.
lEyA TIL in 1860′s San Francisco, two stray dogs who were best friends became local celebrities. Their exploits were celebrated in local papers and they were granted immunity from the city’s dog catchers.
ol1Y TIL that when Fibonacci created his number sequence, he didn’t realise it described all sorts of aspects in nature.