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TIL Gavrilo Princip, Franz Ferdinand's assassin and catalyst for the start of WW1, was 19 years old at the time of his trial, and only 27 days away from turning 20, which the minimum age for the death sentence in the Habsburg empire. He got the maximum of 20 years in prison but died just 4 years in

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epMB5 TIL the closest living relatives of the Muskox are sheep and goats
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