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TIL that Joan of Arc was declared innocent of heresy in a retrial twenty-five years after being burned at the stake.

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mxZeo TIL: Piggly Wiggly was the first true self-service grocery store. Before their founding in September 6, 1916, grocery stores did not allow their customers to gather their own goods. Instead, a customer would give a list of items to a clerk, who would then go through the store, gathering them.
e0lDk TIL that Pope Formosus’ corpse was dug up from its grave and tried in 897 by his 2nd successor Pope Stephen IV for “perjury and having acceded to the papacy illegally.” His corpse, propped up on a throne and appointed a deacon as his “advocate,” was found guilty, rendering his papacy null and void.
Oddg TIL that Thomas Paine, one of America’s Founding Fathers, said all religions were human inventions set up to terrify and enslave mankind … only 6 people attended his funeral.
j6dMX TIL Massachusetts is the only state that doesn't allow happy hour.
9YgND TIL zoologist Francis Buckland kept the remains of a cat under his bed at Winchester College, dug up and ate a dead panther from a zoo (declaring the meat "not very good"), and took his pet bear Tigleth Pileser to a meeting at Oxford University dressed in a cap and gown.