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TIL when Peter the Great found his wife had a lover he had the man beheaded, then forced her to keep her lover’s head in a jar of alcohol in her bedroom which stood in Catherine’s bedroom till Peter’s death.

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Y7Zmr TIL in the 1950s the average height of a Japanese man was 4'11
Oo8Ge TIL During WW2 air support had been requested against a German occupied city. By then, the British took the city but were unable to radio the RAF to stop the bombing, so a pigeon named G.I. Joe was sent to stop it, arriving just as the planes were preparing to take off, saving thousands of men.
V8j0 TIL that the sun has still not set on the British Empire.
D1d1Y Today i learned that a man was arrested after airport security became suspicious of bumps found under his pants which turned out to be 64 alive birds,and 2 dead, stitched into the lining near his groin.
X4Lk TIL Civil Rights Lawyer Lynne Stewart had a 28 month jail sentence increased to 10 years for saying - “I could do that standing on my head”. She is now dying of cancer in prison.