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TIL, in 1566, A heavily pregnant Mary, Queen of Scotts, was held up at gunpoint, as her Secretary (David Rizzio), was dragged away from her and stabbed to death by her Husband and his co-conspirators, forcing Mary to witness the execution as he begged the Queen to save him.

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LkvLV TIL that in 2017, a German prison was forced to feed inmates McDonald's after a food supply contract fell through.
yggl TIL that in ‘The Godfather’, McCluskey’s shooting was done by building a fake forehead on top of actor Sterling Hayden. A gap was cut in the middle, filled with fake blood, and was bunged up with prosthetic flesh. The plug was yanked out with fishing line, making a hole suddenly appear.
9wwx6 TIL on June 5th 1995 a male mallard collided with a new glass wall at the Natural History Museum in Rotterdam, died, then was immediately copulated by another male mallard for 75 minutes. It became know as “the first case of homosexual necrophilia in the mallard,” and spring-boarded Dead Duck Day.
9wBwB TIL in 2015, a woman's parachute failed to deploy while skydiving, surviving with life-threatening injuries. Days before, she survived a mysterious gas leak at her house. Both were later found to be intentional murder plots by her husband.
xVRR1 TIL Brian Jacques, author of the Redwall Series, was originally a milkman that volunteered to read to blind students along his route. Dissatisfied with the selection of children’s books available, he decided to write his own and became a best-selling author.