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TIL that queen ants can live up to 30 years
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TIL Otto Von Bismarck predicted the start of World war I with quote “One day the great European War will come out of some damned foolish thing in the Balkans (1888).”
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TIL Emily Canellos-Simms held the world´s largest fine for an overdue library book at $345.14 which was checked out in 1955. The book was Days and Deeds. The library charged her 2 cents a day. She found the book 47 years later and presented the library with a check for her fine
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TIL Maharaja Ranjitsinhji Jadeja of Jamnagar,India gave refuge to 1000 Polish children during World War II.
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TIL Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling is the first billionaire to fall off the Forbes billionaire list because of charitable giving: “You have a moral responsibility when you’ve been given far more than you need, to do wise things with it and give intelligently.”
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TIL that the inventor of the windshield wipers, a simple yet necessary car accessory, was a woman. Mary Andersen filed her patent in 1903 and called her invention a "window cleaning device" for electric cars and other vehicles.