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TIL Jeanne de Clisson, a Frenchwoman whose husband was beheaded for treason, swore revenge and sold her family lands to buy 3 warships. For the next 13 years she went on a pirating binge, targeting King Philip VI’s ships, & personally beheading French noblemen she captured with an axe.

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PYWJO TIL of Viktor Pestek, a 19-year-old S.S. guard at Auschwitz who was so disgusted by the camp that he began to help Jews escape. He was discovered and executed by his fellow guards. To this day he has never been formally recognized for his actions.
p8B7O TIL There is a paralyzed streamer who can play video games (like PUBG) by his mouth. His nickname is RockyNoHand. After an accident, he is paralyzed from the neck down. However, he continues to game and streams on Twitch. He plays by using his mouth to operate a quadstick controller.
MeKe0 TIL of Alcuin. An English scholar who taught Charlemagne the remnants of Latin culture left in Britain. He also convinced Charles to stop forced baptisms, writing "We must appeal to the conscience, not compel it by violence. You can force people to be baptised, but you cannot force them to believe."
ADNyd TIL Spree-killer Anders Breivik is thought to have “narcissistic decompensation”, which is when a narcissist takes a hit to their self-esteem, like being rejected by a peer group. Then they isolate themselves from collective thinking, and move into a paranoid disorder.
nW8rG TIL The Pastry War is the real name of a war fought between France and Mexico, triggered by the alleged damage of a French pastry shop in Mexico