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TIL that in 6 days Queen Elizabeth will become the longest reigning British Monarch

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j6P6R TIL the Law and Order "chungt chungt" sound includes samples of hundreds of Japanese men thumping their feet on a wooden floor- and its creator makes money every time it's played
5GXB TIL that in 2001, Ed Toutant lost “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire” due to an error in a question. When this was discovered, he was invited back on and ended up winning $1.86 million.
DXGj TIL no one born blind has ever developed schizophrenia
v1Omx TIL APOPO, a Tanzanian wildlife agency trained African Pouch rats to sniff out landmines and diagnose tuberculosis by smelling sputum samples. The rats were so effective that the US Fish and Wildlife Department spent $100,000 on a program where Pouch rats were trained to combat wildlife trafficking.
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