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TIL that while Emperor Charles I of Austria’s body is buried in Madeira, where he had been exiled following the Dissolution of Austria-Hungary, his heart is currently held in the Muri Abbey, a monastery near Zürich, Switzerland

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TIL that while Emperor Charles I of Austria’s body is buried in Madeira, where he had been exiled following the Dissolution of Austria-Hungary, his heart is currently held in the Muri Abbey, a monastery near Zürich, Switzerland

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