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TIL that the real-life Georg von Trapp of 'The Sound of Music' fame was previously married to Agathe Whitehead, a British-Austrian heiress and aristocrat, and granddaughter of torpedo inventor Robert Whitehead. The couple had seven children from 1911 to 1921. Agathe died of scarlet fever in 1922.

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