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TIL that the UK royal family has a surname: Mountbatten-Windsor (formerly just Windsor).

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7rM97 TIL of Diren Dede, a 17-year-old exchange student from Germany, who entered the garage of Markus Kaarma looking for alcohol, and Kaarma deliberately set alcohol out as bait. Kaarma was sentenced to 70 years in prison for deliberate homicide.
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