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TIL that in 1523, Christian II of Denmark was succeeded by Frederick I, who was succeeded by Christian III, who was succeeded by Frederick II and so on till 1972, when Queen Margarethe succeeded her father to the Danish throne. For 449 years, the Danish king was either named Christian or Frederick.
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TIL that the name "Bullet Train" refers specifically to the Japanese Shinkansen system and isn't just a nickname for any highspeed train with a bullet shaped nose
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TIL the voice of the announcements on the New York City Subway system is that of Bernie Wagenblast, a transgender woman
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TIL that the first female on record to circumnavigate the globe did so twice, surviving two or three shipwrecks. She was a milk-goat with no name on record, just called "The Well-Travelled Goat" in her 1772 obituary.
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TIL from 1935-1964 in the US all liquor bottles were required to have the phrase “Federal Law Forbids Sale or Reuse of this bottle”. This was done in an effort to discourage the reuse of empty bottles for selling moonshine, the sale of which was very common during the Prohibition era.