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TIL China's Last Emperor worked as a Street Sweeper and Gardener in Beijing after serving 10 years in a re-education camp

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e0Npk Today I learned Mendelejeff (inventor of the periodic table), Bohr (formulated Quantum Theory, Einstein (created the Theory of Relativity) and many other inventors/scientists/etc discovered their ideas from dreams
v1nNB TIL Punishment by whipping-post remained on the books in Delaware until 1972, when it became the last state to abolish it.
wLZL8 TIL in 1914 the wife of the French PM assassinated a newspaper editor to prevent him from leaking that she and her husband had been dating while still married to their previous spouses. She was acquitted for 'uncontrollable female emotions'
VMnlZ TIL that Götz von Berlichingen, a warrior poet, lost his right arm by cannon fire in 1504. He had a mechanical arm invented so that he could still hold a sword and fought in numerous battles, led rebel armies, was attributed with coining the phrase "he can kiss my ass" and died at 82 of old age.
KOWOJ TIL that many plant stores hot glue fake flowers onto cactus