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TIL David Kang who shot blanks at king Charles III while he was prince of Wales only got 500 hours community service because he was experiencing depression

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69ARm TIL that during the state opening of parliament in 1845, the Duke of Argyll accidentally dropped the Imperial State Crown, causing £150 (23,000$ today) worth of damage. Of the accident, Queen Victoria wrote in her diary:" [The Crown] was all crushed and squashed, like a pudding that had set down."
QNeM6 TIL The Turkish Army formerly issued fines to families of soldiers who committed suicide, demanding them to pay for the bullet that they used, although they abolished that practice under pressure
DQPXv TIL one bad apple in a bunch of apples will release ethylene and ruin all the other apples in the bunch.
nWaD9 TIL about the death of 9yr old Stanton Walker. A spectator at a baseball game in Morristown(ohio), he was struck by a foul ball while a knife was passed between his companions for the purpose of sharpening a score keeping pencil. The knife lodged between his ribs and he died in minutes.
R7LEw TIL there was a dinosaur with 500 teeth