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TIL- Even GitLab Has GitHub Account!

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e5KJ TIL in World War II, during the invasion of the Netherlands, Princess Juliana and Prince Bernhard evacuated to Canada. When Princess Juliana’s child was born, the Governor General of Canada declared the Princess’ quarters extraterritorial so that the newborn was eligible for the line of succession.
XE4M6 TIL that while living in China for his profession in mining, Herbert Hoover was trapped in Tianjin by the Boxer Rebellion. While there, he helped guide US Marines unfamiliar with the terrain and may have rescued Chinese children caught in the crossfire.
d8Or8 TIL When the # and * keys were first put on phones they had no purpose whatsoever and were only included because touch tone phones could create up to twelve tones.
YWZv TIL that James Earl Jones and Madge Sinclair, who voiced Mufasa and Sarabi in “The Lion King,” also played an African royal couple 6 years earlier in Eddie Murphy’s “Coming to America”
BrNBr TIL Saddam Hussein purchased 4,000 PlayStation 2s in attempt to create a military supercomputer.