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TIL that Queen Elizabeths grandfather, King George V, was euthanized by his physician. The physician wrote in his journal that he euthanized the King so that his death would be announced in the morning newspapers, rather than the "less appropriate evening journals".

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R746a TIL about Graham's number. This is a finite number so large that you couldn't write it out even if the numbers you used were subatomic in size and you used the whole observable universe as a canvas. But we know it ends in a seven.
XE1O6 TIL Hitler used an arson attack on the German parliament to justify taking away most civil liberties in Germany, including habeas corpus, freedom of expression, freedom of the press, the right of free association, public assembly and the secrecy of the post and telephone
wLYxP TIL about Everest climber Lincoln Hall, who was presumed dead and abandoned at 8700m. The next morning a group of climbers found him changing his clothes, alive, awake, and almost naked.
GWO4 TIL the SR-71 Blackbird outran nearly 4000 missiles fired at it during its service life.
yV5eV Til about the Gladbeck Hostage Crisis, when a bus was highjacked in August 1988 after an armed bank raid in Gladbeck, West Germany, and the German media reporters apparently helped the kidnappers during the crime to get a good story