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TIL In 1639, Jörg Jenatsch, a Swiss political leader, was assassinated by a man in a bear costume wielding an axe during Carnival. The assassin was never identified.

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QNWO6 TIL about the 1977 Washington DC hostage taking incident, where a slinter group of the Nation of Islam stormed city hall, a Jewish center, and as Islamic center. They took 149 hostages, two of whom were killed, and demanded the cancellation of a movie about the family of Mohammad.
VBdEB TIL of Henry Trigg, a 17th century grocer whose will requested to have his body placed in a coffin in his barn's rafters. Copies of his will were sold, and WWI soldiers later stole his bones. A horse-riding school replaced them with horse bones, explaining that having no bones would lose revenue.
Q7nE TIL that Stalin tried to kill Yugoslavian leader Tito 22 times. Tito then wrote him a letter reading “Stop sending people to kill me. If you don’t stop sending killers, I’ll send one to Moscow, and I won’t have to send a second.”
1KJD TIL, The Harris Neck Occupation: When black protesters took over a wildlife refuge in 1979, they were removed in 3 days
1opO TIL part of the 18 disciplines of ninjutsu (ninja) was the study of meteorology and geography.