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TIL that the skeleton named Lucy, a part human and part chimpanzee from 3.2 million of years skeleton and contributed to the human evolution theory, was named after the song from the Beatles, "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" because the archaeologists who found her, were listening that song non-stop.

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4Xv5w TIL that in 1866, during the Austro-Prussian War, Liechtenstein sent an army composed of 80 soldiers to the front. 81 returned home, because nobody died and in addiction they made an Italian friend.
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