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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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d8v79 TIL Abraham Maslow never created a pyramid to represent his idea of hierarchy of needs
7mr7 TIL a Florida highschooler was suspended for wrestling a gun away from another student, because he was involved in an “incident with a weapon”
BgWPx TIL 100 years ago, the big band song "Masculine Women, Feminine Men" worried that women were too manly for smoking and playing pool, while men were too effeminate for buying cologne and dressing their children
5JrB TIL There is a BnB called The Smuggler’s Inn directly on the US-Canadian border. The main attraction is watching smugglers cross the border with night vision binoculars.
GYlp7 TIL cockroach farms grow billions of hem to be used in China to eat kitchen waste. After six months of their lifespan they are washed and dried to be sold for cattle feed or their essence to be extracted for medicinal purposes (curing oral and peptic ulcers, skin wounds and even stomach cancer)