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TIL that everyone expected the Spanish Inquisition. People were given 30-40 days notice to prepare their defense case.

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JQEV TIL: Albert Göring, the younger brother of Nazi leader, Hermann Göring, was actively engaged in anti-Nazi activities, freed many Jews, and collaborated with the Czech resistance.
8aNM8 TIL that a cannibal named Issei Sagawa has profited from his crimes. After murdering and eating his classmate in 1981, he was released due to a loophole and has translated his fame into books, talk show appearances, and even softcore porn films in which he bites his co-stars.
a8VbL TIL: About Alphonse Bertillion, an anthropologist and chief of France’s Judicial Identification Services who developed and was featured in the first standardized mug shot.
DwLY TIL the word “Goodbye” is a contraction of the phrase “God Be With You”.
VN4Q TIL Mormon prophet Joseph Smith wrote that the father of the Biblical Pharaoh was named “Egyptus”. Not only was the word “Egypt” not in use until the 16th Century, ancient Egyptians referred to the country as “Kemet”.