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TIL Princess Margriet of the Netherlands (whose family had fled the Nazi occupation during WWII) was born in an Ottawa hospital where it was temporarily declared extraterritorial by the Canadian government, so that the newborn would only inherit Dutch citizenship and not be a British subject.

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