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TIL the first international war crime trial took place in the Holy Roman Empire in 1474. Peter von Hagenbauch was found guilty of atrocities committed during the occupation of Breisach, and beheaded.

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G7QQ TIL Thomas Jefferson invented the swivel chair and sat on the first one while writing much of the Declaration of Independence
Po0e TIL that the Turkish F-Keyboard was designed using studies on bone and muscle anatomy of the fingers and letter frequencies in the Turkish language. With this scientific preparation, Turkey has broken 14 world records in typewriting championships between 1957 and 1995
KY0VE TIL that is was a common practice of the Roman emperor Geta to make puzzles for his grammarians, asking them to characterize the sounds of different animals
BB8e TIL J.S. Bach was attacked by one of his students because he said the student played the bassoon like a goat
GYxAj TIL That The Phillipines celebrate Republic day on July 4. Originally their Independence Day. The country that they gained independence from is the United States.