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TIL In the Dark ages up to the 1800s Animals were sentenced for human crimes. Dogs, pigs, cows, rats and even flies and caterpillars were arraigned in court on charges ranging from murder to obscenity.

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5VARn TIL when Brazilian football/soccer player Pelé died last December, he was survived by his 100-year-old mother, Celeste, who, given her advanced age, did not understand her son's death. Pelé's sister Maria Lucia do Nascimento described their mother as "in her own little world."
9ZEM TIL New Zealand soldiers carved a gigantic Kiwi into the side of a hill in England right after WWI. It’s still visible today.
1aOpW TIL in the 1964 film Zulu, the Zulu king Cetshwayo kaMpande was portrayed by his actual great-grandson
MAVK TIL that Texas banned prisoners’ choice of last meal after Lawrence Russell Brewer requested 2 chicken fried steaks, a triple-meat bacon cheeseburger, fried okra, 1 lbs of BBQ, 3 fajitas, a meat lover’s pizza, a pint of ice cream & a slab of peanut butter fudge w/ crushed peanuts and ATE NONE of it
ka6B TIL that Christianity in its first two centuries was in some respects more progressive towards women than it is today. A number of influential women from that era have simply been forgotten from history.