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TIL that, as of a couple of days ago, Queen Elizabeth II is the second longest-reigning monarch in known history

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wGd7 TIL the tomato originated in South America and only started being grown in Italy around 1550.
D1rp TIL that in 2006, two women named Madeleine Mores (who claimed to have never met each other) both claimed to have the same identity along w/ corroborating birth certificates and govt documentation. When presented with a photograph of them together from the 1940’s, neither remembered it being taken.
GAGE1 TIL that the famous "We Can Do It!" poster was barely known during WWII. It was displayed for two weeks as part of a series of posters to boost worker morale in one company's factories. It remained virtually unknown until the 1980s when it was rediscovered in an article about the National Archives.
OGova TIL In Napoleon’s love letters he wrote that he dreams of Josephine's "little black forest"
a8LLy TIL Cheddar Cheese is artificially dyed orange