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TIL Queen Elizabeth II is the head of a whopping 16 states.
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TIL Bangalore was the first city in Asia to be electrified in 1905, using hydroelectric power plants. They replaced kerosene street lamps with electric ones.
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TIL that sea silk is a highly prized unique material made from Mediterranean clams. The only person who knows the ancient craft is an elderly Italian woman.
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TIL that most of a woman’s eggs are made during fetal development. So technically, half of you was an egg in your mother when your mother was just a fetus in your grandmother’s womb.
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TIL the government sent a vegan mayonnaise company a warning letter stating that their product did not meet the legal definition of mayonnaise.
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TIL that the Samoan crisis was a naval standoff between the German empire and the USA that ended when a cyclone swept through and sank both fleets.