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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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N7E6N TIL that workers in Cuban cigar factories in the early 1900s employed 'lectores' to read to them while they worked. The reading materials were often literary or political, ranging from socialists newspapers to Shakespearean plays - sometimes leading to clashes with anti-communist factory owners.
W7Gl8 TIL about the Republic of Winston, a county that, during the American Civil War, attempted to secede from the state of Alabama. Their thinking was, " if a state could secede from the Union, then a county could secede from the state."
E14Do TIL that in 2001, Alanis Morissette single-handedly extended the Broadway run of "Jane Eyre" by a month, donating $150,000 worth of tickets to poor kids
xVMk0 TIL that the Galil ARM features a bottle opener on the front handguard, as magazines were being damaged by being used to open bottles.
oB5eE TIL in 1987 the first episode of the British youth television show Network 7 featured a live demonstration of how to clone a credit card and showed it working.