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TIL the current King of Saudi Arabia, Salman, is the son of Abdul-Aziz, who founded the modern kingdom in 1932 and was its first ruler. Abdul-Aziz, also known as Ibn Saud, was born in 1875.

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xMyb TIL Jeannette Rankin, the first woman to be elected to Congress, voted in favor of the original House resolution that ultimately gave women the right to vote. She later noted that she was “the only woman who ever voted to give women the right to vote.”
p8P44 TIL: 100 crew members of the nuclear submarine USS Scorpion were scheduled to make its 1968 deployment. One sailor refused to go citing the sub’s dire need of maintenance. 99 sailors were killed when the sub sank in the Atlantic.
m1Jro TIL Scientists created an antenna that is only five nanometres long
xVePo TIL the Dutch traded the island of Manhattan to the British for Run Island, near Indonesia, for its supply of nutmeg.
R7jpa TIL that in the 1970s the LA Times published an article regarding Oliver, a purported human-chimp hybrid