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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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GxP1 TIL that while in office JFK regularly took painkillers, barbiturates and amphetamines prescribed by the well known celebrity doctor “Dr Feelgood”
X09AP TIL about the Smooth-Hawley tariff act of 1930 which increased US tariffs (by an average of 20%) on over 20,000 imported goods, while it seemed succesful at first by 1933 US exports had declined by 61% and its GNP by almost 50%
5Y95Q TIL that Pluto was discovered by a 23 year old farmboy with no degree in astronomy who spent a year comparing photographs of the night sky, searching for a "star" that changed positions. He would later earn his Masters degree and teach at New Mexico State
MALa TIL George Washington died from a “sore throat”, even after three doctors administered care, all of whom bled him for multiple pints of blood (two pints in the last bleed alone).
6LEQ TIL a 5 year old child was sacrificed in Chile after the largest earthquake ever recorded. The two charged were released after 2 years, as the judge ruled they “acted without free will, driven by an irresistible natural force of ancestral tradition.”