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TIL Alexander the Great held a drinking contest among his soldiers. When it was over, 42 people had died from alcohol poisoning.

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Bk6y TIL while on trial for treason the lawyer of Michel Ney, one of Napoleon’s marshals, argued that French courts could not try Ney because he was Prussian since his hometown had been annexed by Prussia. Ney ruined the defense by interrupting, “I am French and will remain French.” Ney was executed.
8ek5K TIL in 393 AD, the Roman emperor Theodosius I banned the Olympic Games because he considered them to be a pagan festival, which had no place in his Christian country. They weren’t held again until 1896.
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