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TIL: The president of France is the co-prince of Andorra.

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N7RdQ TIL about The Song of Roland, 11th-century epic poem which is the oldest surviving major work of French literature and exists in various manuscript versions. The final text has about 4,000 lines of poetry.
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b9Zp9 TIL the winning entry in last year's Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition was disqualified because the anteater it featured was stuffed.