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TIL that Cambodian King Jayavarman VII built 102 hospitals in order to serve the people of the Khmer Empire.

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wOeW TIL there is a movement in France which rejects the Revolution and maintains that the Duke of Anjou, Louis Alphonse, is King Louis XX
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yVyye TIL that the People's Revolutionary Government of Grenada was established in 1979 after the Marxist-Leninist New Jewel Movement overthrew the previous Grenadian administration. Grenada was still a commonwealth realm during this time, making it a socialist state with Elizabeth II as its monarch.
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