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TIL before his murder, James Fannin made three requests: he asked for his personal possessions to be sent to his family, to be shot in his heart and not his face, and to be given a Christian burial. The Mexican soldiers took his belongings, shot him in the face, and burned Fannin's body.

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4kBpJ TIL about Vinegar Valentine's. During the Victorian Era , people would send each other Valentine's that were mean-spirited and insulting to the other person
4XOba TIL that Eritrea, a small African dictatorship of a country, is one of the worst places in the world for human rights. Every 18 year old Eritrean is conscripted to the army in which the conditions are said to be practically slavery.
XEwxr TIL the Engish mathematician and philosopher Alfred North Whitehead's work was so difficult to understand even professional philosophers struggled to follow Whitehead's writing.
woXv8 TIL After Leonardo da Vinci's death in 1519, his half-brother Bartolomeo attempted to replicate his genius by fathering a son by a woman from the same village as Leonardo's mother. The boy, Pierino da Vinci, was raised in one of Florence's finest art studios but sadly died young.
BrnQL TIL in the UK, the 5 archbishops and 21 most senior bishops of the Church of England are automatically granted 26 seats at the House of Lords (UK's Senate), with full voting powers. According to Humanists UK, the only other country to give clerics this kind of power is the Islamic Republic of Iran.