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TIL after most of his family was murdered by the Austro-Hungarian forces Momčilo Gavrić set off to join the Serbian army, becoming the youngest soldier in WWI at age 7. He reached the rank of lance sergeant in the Serbian army.

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grZEb TIL IBM made the punch card systems the Nazi’s used to catalog people who were sent to the camps. Anyone who had a number tattoo was most likely assigned it from an IBM punch card system.
6yW7 TIL in 1982 Vincent Chin was beaten to death in a Detroit suburb. The perpetrators were Chrysler plant superintendent Ronald Ebens and his stepson, Michael Nitz. The attack was motivated by U.S. auto manufacturing jobs being lost to Japan, although Chin was Chinese. They served no jail time.
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