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TIL Andorra has one person act as ambassador to the United States, Mexico, and Canada. Elisenda Vives Balmaña is the current ambassador to the three countries and was formerly the ambassador to Italy and Morocco.

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neE9o TIL that when America's first rocket scientist, Robert Goddard, theorized that rockets could reach the moon, the New York Times harshly criticized him and wrote that he "lacked the knowledge ladled out daily in high schools." 49 years later, Apollo 11 succeeded and the NYT published a retraction.
nBNB TIL a man mailed 100 companies asking for free stuff, dubbing it “The $39 Experiment.”
4BOg TIL Abraham Lincoln died with only $5 in his pocket. Ironic because he ended up on the $5 bill
b6gZj TIL There's a football(soccer) player named Osama Vinladen with a brother named Saddam Hussein.
VMvp0 TIL in her nearly 70 year reign, the Queen has visited 116 countries in the world, but Greece is not one of them, despite her husband been born there. The reason is believed to be that Philip hates his birth country, because of how they treated his family over the years