Today I Learned (TIL)

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Original Title: TIL In 1980, when doctors told Yugoslav dictator Josip Broz Tito he had to amputate his leg to save his life, he said he would rather take his own life. This stubbornness eventually contributed to his death, which opened a power vacuum and led to the collapse of Yugoslavia in the coming decades.