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TIL, the last Empress of Korea was assassinated and burnt by the Japanese in 1895

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QJKap TIL about Mary A. and Barbara F., both were born the same day, 157 years apart. Before they died, they both joined a friend and then went to dance. They both met their killer the same day and they both died the same day at the same place. Both killers were called Thornton and both were acquitted.
8aeJa TIL after Nietzsche's death his sister Elisabeth curated and edited his manuscripts, reworking Nietzsche's unpublished writings to fit her own German nationalist ideology while often contradicting or distorting his stated opinions, which were explicitly opposed to antisemitism and nationalism.
oRKvY TIL:In 1523, Charles V allowed the construction of a cathedral choir and main altar within the Mesquita, a famed mosque in Cordoba, Spain. Charles later regretfully declared, “You have built what you or others might have built anywhere, but you have destroyed something that was unique in the world.”
0d9nL TIL the Church of Sweden has elections for its synodical assembly, open to all of its members. Political parties are represented in this administration.
6Rgm TIL A 15 year old boy was locked up for a year on false rape charges, and the girl received no punishment when she admitted lying a year later.