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TIL Gavrilo Princip, the man who assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand, believed the World War was bound to happen, independent of his actions. Chained to a wall in solitary confinement at the Terezín fortress, he died in 1918 weighing around 40kg from malnutrition and disease.

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Qr8L TIL that there is an area in the middle of the Pacific Ocean where no longer needed spacecraft are and have been routinely deposited. It is known as the “Spacecraft cemetery”, and notably it is also the place where the defunct Mir space station rests.
5Vw8k TIL numerous requests to license Rollerball (1975) into a real game angered the director, Norman Jewison, who said the movie's point was to show the "sickness and insanity of contact sports and their allure".
m1Lkx TIL about Pink Panthers, an international jewel thief network, responsible for over 350 robberies totaling over $500 million, with dozens of members breaking out of prisons worldwide.
j6eDM TIL about cross sea waves - square waves, also known as square seas. They are formed when the winds of two weather systems - one old and one new - meet. The result looks like a quilt-like pattern of squares on the surface of the sea. Cross seas usually occur along coastal areas and are rare.
41Lg TIL, Stella Lieback, the woman who sued McDonald’s over split hot coffee was 79 at the time, suffered 3rd degree burns and spent over a week in the hospital requiring skin grafts and other treatments. She only sued McDonalds so they could cover all medical expenses, they offered a paltry $800.