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TIL that no football club won the French League during the 1992/93 season. After 1st place Marseille lost its title due to a bribery scandal, it was allotted to 2nd place PSG, but the owners of the club, TV chain Canal+, feared the reactions of their subscribers in Marseille and refused it

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yQ4VM TIL when the deposed last Empress Consort of China was imprisoned, she would hallucinate that she was still in the Forbidden City, demanding opium and servants. Put on display in the jail as if she was in a zoo, she died from malnutrition and opium withdrawal in a pool of her own bodily fluids.
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