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ADEKn TIL Bismarck created health, accident, old age and disability insurance aimed at the working population to lower the popularity of the ever-growing Social Democratic Party
e9BE TIL the 1000 year old body of a Buddhist monk was discovered inside an ancient statue of Buddha
5VWKD TIL that the English town of Washington, Tyne and Wear celebrates the Fourth of July as it's the ancestral home of the Washington family
69dyw TIL The lines "No man is an island" and "...for whom the bell tolls, it tolls for thee." Both come from Meditation XVII of John Donne's Devotions upon Emergent Occasions. Donne quickly wrote his meditations following a terrible illness.
4Xl1J TIL there's a Volvo high mileage club, and the top car has apparently done 3,000,000 miles! And there are several over a million miles...