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TIL that the two sons of Archduke Franz Ferdinand were sent to Dachau and made to clean toilets for objecting to Hitler’s annexation of Austria

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4k8Eg TIL of the "Dawson Film Find". 1900s Dawson was a remote gold rush town with a cinema. Film's sent there were never returned, accumulated, buried, covered by a hockey rink and forgotten. Years later diggers unearthed the 533 reels of lost films, and rare footage, including the 1919 World Series.
oDxK TIL: Harvard study found that Antioxidants had very little to no effect health benefits.
woer1 TIL about lateral line, a system of sensory organs found in fish, used to detect movement and pressure in the surrounding water. It plays an important role in group behavior, predation and orientation.
KNea TIL that the show ‘Firefly’ has been permanently added to the International Space Station as a form of entertainment for the station’s crews.
4XKEw TIL Jesus is the most mentioned person in the Quran