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TIL that a British man named Michael Faban broke into Buckingham's Palace, twice, in less then a month in 1982. He urinated in the Royal Corgis dog food, wandered the palace, made a maid look crazy, stole wine from Prince Charles room and woke up the Queen in her bedroom.

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