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grgW TIL that after finding his wife was cheating on him, Peter the Great of Russia beheaded Willem Mons, put his head in a jar, and made his wife spend time with it every day.
XXKE TIL A man who survived the sinking of a ship in 1871 was finally able to overcome his fears and decided to sail again in 1911: he died in the sinking of the Titanic.
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AkdB TIL the Nazis also made a film called “Titanic”. It was an anti-British propaganda piece about the famous shipwreck. The RAF bombed the theater it was to have premiered in and later sunk the ship it was filmed on, resulting 3x the deaths as the Titanic.
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