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TIL that in 1920, the King of Greece was killed after a monkey bite. King Alexander I was trying to break up a fight between his German Shepherd and a pet monkey on the royal grounds when a second monkey attacked and bit him. The wound became infected, and he died of sepsis three weeks later.

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