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TIL Empress Lü Zhu, wife of the founder of the Han Dynasty was an absolute psychopath, arresting her husband's favourite concubine after his death. She had the concubine's limbs cut off, eyes gouged out, ears cut off, was forced to drink a poison that made her mute and was thrown into a latrine.

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4ZWa TIL that ‘never’ is a contraction of 'not ever’
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