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TIL when Queen Margrethe II of Denmark abdicates on Jan 14, it will be the first time Europe hasn't had a Queen Regnant since 1833

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PYlwE TIL A group of engineering students from Purdue University reported that its licking machine, modeled after a human tongue, took an average of 364 licks to get to the center of a Tootsie Pop.
N89N TIL after David Bowie released his album Low, Nick Lowe responded by releasing an album named Bowi
X4l8 TIL there is a strip club in Portland that serves only vegan food and only allows its strippers to strip in non-animal-based clothing
l7NL1 TIL that in 1919 Pacific Improvement Company was looking to attract more people to their coastal developments. 29 year old Samuel Morse pitched the idea of a coastal golf course, and they agreed. Today this course is called Pebble Beach. (Also Samuel’s cousin by the same name invented Morse code. )
X0a9R TIL that most of the dinosaurs in Jurassic Park are from the Cretaceous period.