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TIL Canada is one of the oldest continual monarchies in the world. Established in either the 15th or 16th Century, it is older than the British monarchy which took a break between 1649 and 1660.

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J1pL4 TIL Jim Carrey won back-to-back acting Golden Globe awards (The Truman Show & Man on the Moon) without receiving an Oscar nomination for either of them and he still has never been nominated for an Oscar.
JY7Gv TIL: In 1910 a Spanish shepherd went missing. Rumour spread he’d been murdered. Two men confessed to his murder under torture by the Civil Guard and served 12 years in prison before being pardoned in 1925. In 1926 it was discovered the shepherd had been living in a nearby town the entire time.
X04W8 TIL about Denny (Denisova 11), the only fossil ever discovered from a first-generation Neanderthal-Denisovan offspring
D1w6J TIL that in over 50 years and 10 billion passengers, the Japanese bullet train has never had a single passenger fatality caused by a derailment or collision.
g9dL TIL the American government can classify your invention as “born secret” and keep it from the public