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TIL - In 399 BC, Socrates went on trial and was subsequently found guilty of both corrupting the minds of the youth of Athens and of impiety ("not believing in the gods of the state"),and as a punishment sentenced to death, caused by the drinking of a mixture containing poison hemlock.

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GAGM7 TIL of Thomas Higgins, the first person to be posthumously elected as a UK Member of Parliament. He died from a heart attack on election night, after polling had closed, but before the result had been declared.
NXdON TIL about Canuck the Crow, a crow that stole a knife from a crime scene in Vancouver
x68vg TIL in late 1870 there was a naval battle near Havanna between a French and a German ship. It was the only naval fight of the Franco-Prussian War.
k79E TIL that Elizabeth II, the Queen of the United Kingdom, is also the Queen of Jamaica, Barbados, the Bahamas, Grenada, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Tuvalu, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Belize, Antigua and Barbuda, and Saint Kitts and Nevis.
wL45W TIL Andrew Jackson’s wife was attacked as an adulteress and then died during the 1828 Presidential election after falling into deep depression. At her funeral Jackson said, “May God Almighty forgive her murderers. I never can."