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TIL that one of the charges against Marie Antoinette included incestuous relations with her son Louis-Charles, who was forced to testify that his mother had molested him. After a two-day show trial, an all-male jury found the former queen guilty on all charges and unanimously condemned her to death.

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KYrl6 TIL that Hooverball was a sport invented to keep President Herbert Hoover physically fit. It used a six-pound medicine ball and combined the mechanics of tennis and volleyball.
PNOG TIL a man known as the “town bully” in Skidmore, MO was shot twice and killed. There were 46 potential witnesses. No one was ever convicted.
Vn0G TIL, originally, the term ‘masterpiece’ referred to a piece of work produced by an apprentice or journeyman aspiring to become a master craftsman in the old European guild system.
R5766 TIL that Seahorses are the only species in which the male gets pregnant and gives birth. When mating the female deposits her eggs into the male's brood pouch, and the male fertilizes them internally. He carries the eggs in his pouch until they hatch, then releases baby seahorses into the water
BgakK TIL that a taphophile is an individual who has a passion for and enjoyment of cemeteries, epitaphs, gravestone rubbing, photography, art, and history of (famous) deaths.