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Today I learned that after Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife were shot he said "Sophie, Sophie! Don't die! Live for our children!"

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x67go TIL that in Aberfan Scotland on October 21 1966, an avalanche of coal waste rolled down a mountain and demolished an elementary school and town. Of the 144 people killed, 116 were children between 7-10 years old.
xQ77 TIL that in 1932, 15,000 World War I veterans set up camp throughout Washington DC to force Congress to immediately pay their bonus. They were forcibly removed by tanks and cavalry.
vmNL TIL Charles Manson, hoping to incite racial wars, stole his victim’s wallet and had it planted in the restroom of a gas station in what he thought was a black neighborhood; instead of inciting Helter Skelter as he had hoped, it lay there for months until discovered by a cleaning attendant.
eG7E TIL after Philippe Petit’s famous high-wire performance between the Twin Towers - “the artistic crime of the century” - he was charged with trespassing and disorderly conduct. These charges were dropped on the condition that Philippe put on a free high-wire performance for children in Central Park.
jN1LR TIL that Blu-Ray discs are called blue and can hold more storage because the laser is blue, which has a shorter wavelength than red and hence can read more accurately, allowing for more data to be stored.