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TIL that Voltaire teamed up with a mathematician to exploit a loophole in the French lottery that set him up financially for life

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l7e5A TIL a man accused during the Salem witch trials refused to enter a plea, preventing him from being tried. In an attempt to elicit one, he was tortured by pressing, a technique by which the victim is slowly crushed. Each time he was asked for a plea, his only response was "more rocks".
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