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TIL that 167 years ago, Senator Brooks beat Senator Sumner nearly to death on the Senate floor.

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wLRkP TIl that 46 BC was 445 days long and is the longest year in human history.
xKew TIL that the President of France is also the Co-Prince of Andorra. Therefore, Andorra is the only country in the world that has a democratically elected monarch.
oRkKR TIL that Hyacinth Thrash wasn't the only survivor of the Jonestown Massacre. The other was 79 year old Grover Cleveland Davis who being hard of hearing slept through the death assembly. He died a year later.