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TIL Pope Formosus was tried Posthumously for Perjury and Violating Canon law.His nine-month-old corpse exhumed, propped up on a throne, and subjected to a mock trial.He was Found guilty, his election as pope was declared invalid, his acts were quashed, and his fingers of consecration were cut off.

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RArj TIL that the AMBER Alert system (named after the murdered child Amber Hagerman) officially stands for “America’s Missing: Broadcast Emergency Response”. When Canada adopted AMBER Alerts, Quebec named its system “Alerte Médiatique But Enfant Recherché” (“Media Alert for Child Recovery” in French).
rROpx TIL Walter Jackson Freeman II, creator of the "icepick" lobotomy, performed as many as 4,000 surgeries in 23 states despite the fact that he had no formal surgical training. Up to 40% of Freeman's patients were gay individuals subjected to a lobotomy in order to change their homosexual orientation.
6617 TIL An experiment performed by a psychologist and an economist taught a group of Capuchin monkeys the concept of money AND THEN some of the monkeys resorted to prostitution.
graW4 TIL one estimate claims that Earth may have 1 trillion species. However, only 1.75–1.8 million have been named and 1.8 million documented in a central database. These currently living species represent less than one per cent of all species that have ever lived on Earth.
nn77 TIL that Alec Guinness, the actor who played Obi-wan Kenobi, despised star wars calling it “fairy tale rubbish.” Regardless, he was one of the few cast members who believed the film would be a hit and negotiated a deal for 2% of the gross royalties paid to George Lucas. This made him a very rich man