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TIL the last Incan emperor was captured by the Spanish and sentenced to execution by burning. A Spanish priest told him that if he converted to Catholicism his sentence would be commuted. He converted so instead the Spanish strangled him to death.

wV08 TIL the ageing process stops around 90. The death rate stops increasing after this age, so a 100-year-old doesn’t have a greater chance of dying than 93 years old.
rNLAw TIL: George Bernard Shaw was an advocate for reform to the English language. So much so, he funded the creation of the "Shavian Alphabet." A constructed alphabet based on phonetic spelling and specially designed sets of letters, each of which can be written with a single pen stroke.
al9A TIL the Writer of “Caddyshack” fell off a cliff and died a month after the movie’s release, after becoming depressed due to negative reviews. His co-writer joked that he “probably fell while looking for a place to jump.” The film is now a cult classic.
xVeY0 TIL of Rob Willis who bought a used BMW M3 from a dealer and immediately began having issues with the car, while watching an old episode of Top Gear he noticed he had been sold the car Jeremy Clarkson had been honing on the show.
5YQdR TIL of the Pay It Forward Principle. This involves doing a good deed for three people and asking each of them do a good deed for three people and so on. After only 21 repetitions of this all 7.4 billion people on the planet would be reached by such a scheme.