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TIL the King of the Netherlands is also an airline pilot.

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46PX TIL Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna was known for being a brat, even described by some as evil. When she was young she put a rock inside a snowball and threw it at her sister. Later in her teens she stuck her tongue out at the man who would order her assassination.
oBOE7 TIL that the Hotel Mario theme song was based off a tune used in the 1933 film "Little Women"
YpgRx TIL that the phrase "There ain't no such thing as a free lunch" came from the practice of saloons offering a free lunch to patrons purchasing at least one drink. Lunch consisted of salty finger-foods, encouraging the drinking of more beer.
VB1lB TIL that the director of ‘American Psycho’ is the daughter of the guy who played Charlie Farquharson on ‘Hee Haw’
dvjj TIL Lorenzo Music, the Garfield voice actor, volunteered at a suicide hotline. Sometimes a caller would recognize his voice, “My wife left me, I’m broke, I have an incurable disease… Hey, you know you sound like that cat on TV?”