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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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w9M8 TIL of Anekantavada, the belief that truth and reality are perceived differently from different points of view, and no single point of view is the complete truth, yet taken together they comprise the complete truth
epKjJ TIL during a backlash against relaxed 1960s attitudes to drugs and weed smoking backpackers on the hippie trail in Asia, anyone with sufficiently suspect attributes would have the letters SHIT (“suspected hippie in transit”) stamped in their passports in Malaysia before being deported.
7WmX TIL The Guinness World Records 2009 Gamer’s Edition lists GTA San Andreas as the videogame with the largest voice cast, with 861 credited voice actors, including 174 actors and 687 additional performers, many of those performers being fans of the series who wanted to appear on the game.
x6oQD TIL Dress shops in Manhattan used headless mannequins in their windows because it was thought that a face would be distracting. In 1935, Cora Scoville invented a plaster composition and made mannequins with faces resembling fashion editors. Bonwit Teller started a new trend using these mannequins.
v1PWB TIL that in 2016 India gave its citizens less than 4 hours notice that their two largest bills (worth about $8 and $16) would no longer be legal tender. They were only allowed to exchange a max of ₹2000-4500 ($31-70) per person per day, and ATMs were still running out of cash up to 5 months later.