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TIL in 1599, when the local Jivaro Indians in Ecuador got tired of enduring the cruel Spanish governor, who heavily taxed gold miners. The Indians caught this lover of gold and poured molten metal down his throat.

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pYA9G TIL Puyi, the Last Emperor of China, passed away in what was then called “Beijing Hospital of Anti-Imperialism”
evBL TIL The advertising executive that first used sex appeal in ads was a female, and a member of the suffragette movement.
8ayra TIL that Soviet Unions party's last chief treasurer allegedly killed himself in 1991, he was responsible for the party's assets, estimated to be worth nearly $9 billion, which have never been located since
GYJDG TIL Charles Darwin never used the phrase “survival of the fittest” and actually argued against it.
kOdxe TIL The Roman Colosseum was sometimes flooded to re-enact sea battles