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TIL in 2017, King Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands revealed that he is a part-time commercial pilot for KLM since 1996.

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oR5NE TIL that two libraries in Portugal allow bats to nest in them, because they eat bugs that would eat the books.
v1W4B TIL of the insane degree of Convergent Evolution of life on Earth. There is a multitude of cases in which species have adapted to environments by Evolving almost identical body plans and strategies.
rNN5o Today I learned Obsidian Entertainment (involved in Planescape: Torment, Kotor II, PoE, Fallout series) worked on a prequel game about Snow White and the Seven Dwarves until it was canceled when Disney declared SW 'untouchable'.
Q4V9 TIL Custer’s only strategy for the Battle of Little Bighorn (his ‘last stand’) was to kidnap women, children, elderly and disabled and use them as human shields.
Brnde TIL about Naomi Ishakawa Foote, who at 14 years old intentionally shot her classmate, Jason Hood, in 1991 after he harassed her. The next year she was interviewed by Oprah.