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BgWRx TIL that although a 78 member congress governs Puerto Rico all 78 seats are held by "third parties," with zero Republicans & zero Democrats. Instead, the leading two parties are a "social liberalism" anti-statehood party & a one-issue pro-statehood party.
p8QX4 TIL As late as 1000 B.C. lions idled on the banks of the Nile—and some even lounged in palaces as domesticated pets for the royals. Very rare lion mummies discovered in Egypt, until today, only one lion mummy had been found by Egyptologists.
ePmn TIL that Edgar Allen Poe wrote an essay explaining exactly what he meant when writing The Raven
P19XE TIL that if each move took one second, a 64 disk Tower of Hanoi would take around 585 billion years to complete
WkgxN TIL a 7-year-old boy named Zhenya Tabakov was posthumously awarded Russia’s Order of Courage. He died defending his older sister from being assaulted by a criminal in their home. Zhenya stabbed him with a kitchen knife and he let his sister go. She ran for help. The criminal stabbed Zhenya 8 times.