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TIL that King Baudouin of Belgium was declared 'unable to reign' for one day only at his own request, so that he didn't have to give his Royal Assent to a law.

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4XGnR TIL the lifespan of the first generation of postal pilots was around 900 flight hours. The job was so dangerous that 35 of the first 40 pilots hired died in crashes, leading to the nickname 'The Suicide Club'.
4Xg4R TIL the petrified look on Alan Rickmans’s face in 1988’s Die Hard is completely genuine as his stunt team dropped him on the count of 1 instead of the previously promised 3.
6EKkJ TIL about a boy who survived 45 minutes under icy water.
eprAb TIL that Dr. Mary Edwards Walker, an abolitionist, suffragist, surgeon, and the only female recipient of the Medal of Honor, was arrested for wearing men's clothes. She famously said: "I don’t wear men’s clothes, I wear my own clothes."
ADDn4 TIL that in 2003, during a case involving stolen lunar samples,a federal court set the value of the moon rocks at $50,800 per gram based on how much it cost the U.S. government to retrieve the samples between 1969 and 1972.