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TIL That if Queen Elizabeth lives for exactly two more years, she will be the longest lived British monarch ever

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pYNKN TIL it was common practice to use dynamite to break apart chunks of ammonium nitrate, a highly explosive chemical fertilizer.
v19ar TIL that former Waffen-SS soldiers guarded Nazi War Criminals during the Nuremburg Tribunal. This was because the soldiers were Latvian conscripts and did not choose to become soldiers out of their own free will, thus clearing their names and allowing their skills to continue to be put to use.
95lB TIL that Bob Marley’s father, Norval Marley, was a white English man. Working as an overseer on a Jamaican plantation, he impregnated the singer’s African mother when he was 60 and she was just 17 years old
d8GPZ TIL that Groundhog Day was introduced to America by German settlers who originally used a hedgehog to predict the weather, switching to the groundhog as they were easier to come across in the Keystone State.
oBnOo TIL lung cancer in young people (50 or younger) is actually more common in non-smokers than in smokers, and is instead linked mainly to genetics.