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TIL After Franz Ferdinand was shot he pleaded "Sophie dear! Don't die! Stay alive for our children!" after realizing his wife had been hit too.

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8epdP Today I learned there are microbes and diseases plushies!
8a9JL TIL James Gunn’s live action Scooby Doo (2002) was originally a Rated R adult film full of edgy humor, drugs and sex jokes until Warner Brothers made him edit it down to a clean cut PG children’s film.
x6eMw TIL that famous jazz drummer Art Blakey briefly converted to Islam in the 1940s and led a "turbaned, Qur'an-reading jazz band called the 17 Messengers".
Br9jL TIL that when Steve Jobs died in 2011, Microsoft flew their company flag at half-mast out of respect for their old business rival.
GYyJG TIL Adolf Hitler lived and died rich. In 1945 he was thought to have been worth $3 Billion USD by today’s standards.