› added 9 months ago

41

TIL about Francesco Maria Carafa, a Italian nobleman who was tried when he died after being imprisoned, and actually won

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

X0gJD TIL after John Ruffo was convicted and sentenced to 17 years in prison, his bail was set at $10 million. Most of his immediate family put their houses up as collateral to make bail. Ruffo then disappeared and the homes of his wife, mother, mother-in-law, and others were seized by the government.
W7dEo TIL Supermarket Apples can be a year old (and its okay)
yP0J TIL a man was executed for starting the Great Fire of London after he claimed he threw a fire-bomb through a bakery window. This was despite the fact that he was heavily crippled, the bakery had no windows, and it was proven at his trial that he was not even in the country at the time.
JY9jV TIL of Alexei Berest, who was the Soviet soldier that raised the flag over the Reichstag during the Battle of Berlin. He was not given recognition for his role in lifting the flag for unknown reasons. He later died in 1970 after saving a child from being hit by a train.
WyeN TIL there is 30-year-old Brazilian woman who has the mind and body of a 9-month-old