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TIL: On the day before the 1996 Presidential election, the NYT Crossroad puzzle had a clue that required knowing the future: "Tomorrows headline". Except, either of the likeliest answers fully completes the crossword

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16MMd TIL that between the abdication of Margrethe II of Denmark on 14 January 2024, and the election of Māori Queen, Ngā Wai Hono i te Pō on 5 September 2024, there were no female sovereigns in the world. This was the first time this had been the case in over 200 years.
QeXd TIL that it costs Russia about $200,000 a year to keep Lenin’s body preserved.
X9PD TIL the reason that so many working-class British men wore a flat cap is that a 16th-century Act of Parliament designed to stimulate wool consumption penalized non-nobles over the age of 6 if they weren’t wearing a woolen cap.
MM9m TIL that Morgan Freeman wears earrings so that if he dies in a strange place they can pay for his coffin.
kyd TIL Bertrand Russell survived a plane crash at the age of 76, in which 19 of the 43 passengers died. Russell survived because he was seated in the smoking section, claiming before the flight that “If I cannot smoke, I shall die.”