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TIL Viacom was spun off from CBS, then decades later bought CBS (now known as Paramount Global)

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0dWBp TIL seven kings have ruled Belgium since the splitting from The Netherlands in 1831. The first six kings married women from other countries. Current King Phillipe is the first to marry a native born Belgian. Queen Mathilde has multiple degrees and speaks six languages.
W7BvN TIL that The Gambia and Tobago were colonised by the Duchy of Courland and Semigallia - now part of Latvia. Perhaps not surprisingly, the Latvian Duchy was unable to hold on to its colonial possessions for very long.
WWj8 TIL During a psychotic episode when Vincent van Gogh painted Starry Night, he accurately portrayed one of the most supremely difficult concepts nature has ever brought before mankind known as Fluid Dynamics.
0LP5 TIL the oldest living vertebrate is the Greenland Shark, which is estimated to be about 400 years old-though could be as old as 512
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