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TIL ant queens can live up to 30 years!

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Lald TIL by the age of 13, legendary jazz pianist Thelonious Monk, won the weekly amateur contest at the Apollo Theater so many times that he was eventually barred from entering.
GYB85 TIL J.F.K Jr secretly met with Princess Diana ditching Prince Charles. This meeting largely went unnoticed by the press as when discussing methods to go incognito they decided on going through the front door as the press wouldn’t ever think of them doing so.
j6OGM TIL that Ted Bundy worked briefly at a suicide hotline in Seattle in 1971 and met Ann Rule while volunteering there. Ann Rule later wrote The Stranger Beside Me, a true-crime book about Bundy.
QDZa TiL Microsoft had originally approached Encyclopædia Britannica, but it declined, believing its print media sales would be hurt; however, the Benton Foundation was forced to sell Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. at below book value in 1996 when the print sales could no longer compete with Encarta .
VBAp4 TIL that the movie "Flamin' Hot" is not based on a true story; the LA Times investigated the origin of Flamin' Hot and it does not match up with what Richard Montanez claims he did