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TIL the oldest alliance in the world that is still in force is between UK and portugal and date back to 1373

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69gmQ TIL Liquid Helium is the perfect element to keep the superconductive magnets in MRI machines cold
OoogY TIL Shirley Temple, the infamous child star from the 1930s, was heavily involved in politics. She was a United Nations delegate, and also a United States ambassador to several countries.
DQ98j TIL Cleopatra was not actually Egyptian, but Greek.
8pXK TIL that in 1962 the CIA tipped off South Africa’s intelligence service about the location of Nelson Mandela, leading to his arrest that put him in jail for 27 years
9QxG TIL there is a man in India who claims he has gone the past 70 years without food or water. Once Indian military doctors kept him on 24 hour. Watch for 2 weeks and were unable to disprove his claims.