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TIL that 2 dogs were executed for witchcraft during the Salem Witch Trials

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4kBEN TIL in 1945 Ireland's president and prime minister both offered official condolences to Germany upon the death of Hitler. They were the only Western European democracy to do so.
8aVkb TIL alchemists considered Mercury as a magical substance that a Chinese emperor Qin Shi Huang took it as the elixir of immorality which resulted in him dying at the age of 49 and even he was buried in an underground mausoleum full of mercury thinking it's going to help him rule in the afterlife
l7jlB TIL: Town Criers also use other instruments than a bell such as a gong, hunting horn, lute, drums, etc and women were also town criers in medieval times. Today, there are still town crier World Championships for best dressed and loudest. The loudest crier hit 114.8 db.
4XYMg TIL a bridge in Ireland that was designed to swing open for ships couldn't be opened for four years because someone lost the remote control
OoGr1 TIL that Lurleen Wallace could not seek appropriate treatment for cancer after her husband, Alabama segregationist George Wallace, kept it a secret from her for four years due to the fact that he wanted her to become Governor of Alabama. She died after only a year in office.