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TIL Maximilian, Duke of Hohenberg and eldest son of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, was sent to Dachau concentration camp for his resistance to the Anschluss.

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xVg1 TIL Queen were booed on their first concert to Australia and were told to “go back to Pommyland, ya pooftahs” Lead singer, Freddie Mercury replied on stage with “When we come back to Australia, Queen will be the biggest band in the world!
eWR4 TIL that the Rhinoceros Party of Canada, a satirical, federally registered political party in Canada, received 1.01% of the popular vote in the 1980 federal election campaigning to repeal the law of gravity and provide higher education by building taller schools, among other promises.
Eg9MW TIL Jerome Jacobson led a fraud scheme during the McDonald's Monopoly Game in the late 1990s and early 2000s. He worked for Simon Marketing, the company who distributed the pieces, and generated millions in illegal profits. The FBI caught the perpetrators during an operation called "Final Answer."
M7ja TIL that farmed Salmon are fed colourings to make their flesh pink, given they don’t feed on the natural krill and shrimp they do in the wild
nepJo TIL pineapples in the 1700s were worth over $8000 in present-day currency. People would literally rent them to flex at parties.