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TIL Prince Pedro of Portugal fell in love with his wife's maid, Inês de Castro. After his wife died, his father, King Afonso IV, desired he remarry but not to Inês. Pedro refused; so, the King had Inês killed. Pedro captured two of her killers and publicly executed them by tearing out their hearts.

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d8Pmd TIL of an Australian circus family wrongly charged for sexually torturing children as young as three. Victims allegedly had to abuse each other, were cut with knives, had their tongues bitten and needles stuck in their eyes. One of the victims eventually admitted about "lying about the whole thing".
OM16 TIL that the pinky promise originally meant is the person doesn’t keep their promise their pinky finger would be chopped off.
JbLm TIL In 1996, Rob Schneider established the Rob Schneider Music Foundation. The foundation returned music education to Pacifica’s elementary schools by paying the teachers’ salaries and providing funds for instruments and equipment. Prior to this the schools did not have music education for years
16vWO TIL that in 250 million years all continents on our planet will converge and form a new supercontinent, Pangea Ultima. This may also lead to a climate tipping point and Earth becoming uninhabitable for mammals.
R50yQ TILstars have been found nearly halfway to Andromeda Galaxy more than 1 million light-years away from us. For comparison Milky Way’s thin disk is about 100,000 light-years across and Andromeda is 2.5 million light years away.