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TIL that Gavrilo Princip, the man that assassinated Franz Ferdinand and started WW1, was arrested and in prison he contracted Skeletal Tubercolisis which started eating his bones so badly that his arm was amputated and weighted 40 kilograms (88 pounds).

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