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TIL in 1798 Napoleon Bonaparte invaded Italy and marched to Rome, where his army defeated the Papal forces. The 80-year-old Pope Pius VI was arrested for refusing to grant authority to Napoleon. He was taken prisoner and died in captivity 18 months later.

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VjnG TIL that in 2010, a drunk Serbian man on vacation in Egypt became a local hero after he did a cannonball into the ocean and inadvertently killed a Hammerhead shark that had been terrorizing people for weeks.
mxbgp TIL The first recorded use of the F-word in the modern sense is believed to be a court record from the 1300s referencing a Roger Fuckebythenavele who was apparently believed to be too stupid to copulate properly.
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