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Today I learned that a rooster was prosecuted in Switzerland for laying eggs and thus, going against the laws of nature in the 15th century and again in the 18th century. The rooster was condemned to be burned alive in public.

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a81eJ TIL In 1927 Italy, Giulio Canella, a M.I.A. soldier from WW1, was "found" alive in an asylum and reunited with his "family." But a court later found he was not Canella but Mario Bruneri, a wanted criminal. Canella's widow continued living with the man and insisted he was her husband until her death.
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