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TIL, Rosa Luxemburg said her famous quote "remember, those who do not move, do not notice their chains" shortly before shot and killed by a German Nationalist. The man who planned the killing was Waldemar Pabst a fanatical nationalist officer whose paramilitaries became the rank and file for Nazism.

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E1ado TIL that musicians formed the Music Defense League in 1930 to fight against movies with sound. They worried that without people playing music live at the movies, like in the silent era, they would lose jobs so they ran an expensive campaign arguing about how robots were taking over the world.