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TIL about Bogdan Zerajic, whose failed assassination attempt inspired Gavrilo Princip to assassinate Franz Ferdinand two years later, sending the world into World War 1.

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p8GEb TIL General Patton was removed from his post in Italy during WW2 for slapping shell-shocked soldiers in the face. He was transferred to England to lead a fake regiment of inflatable tanks, which served as a distraction to convince the Germans that Normandy would not be the spot of Allied invasion.
0MOA TIL researchers found a single genetic mutation that occurred about 10 million years ago and endowed our ancestors with a stronger ability to metabolize ethanol. As getting drunk off fruit would render one unable to defend territory or look for food, selection favored those with the new mutation.
epPbJ TIL Olympic gold medalists Simone Biles and Katie Ledecky are the sponsors of USS Enterprise (CVN-80), and are technically considered permanent members of the ships crew.
j6jNM TIL about Osamu Mizutani, Also known as the "Yomawari Sensei" (Night Patrol Teacher), He was a night high school teacher in Yokohama, who helped over 330,000 students suffering with depression, harassment and addiction for over 22 years. He wrote a novel based on the events that happened to him.
d8rV9 TIL that in 2008, a Mexican state legislature implemented a surprise drug test for all state lawmakers coming to work to prove if they were clean. The lawmakers nearly trampled over each other trying to reach the door