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TIL that Queen Elizabeth II has a personal bagpiper that plays under her window every morning.

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awoXy TIL of the USS Mason, the only WWII destroyer with an all-black enlisted crew
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rRm61 TIL: Rebecca Black donated the proceeds from her video "Friday" to charity
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