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TIL Fanny Longfellow, wife of American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, died tragically after her dress caught on fire

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4k0VN TIL about the Cadaver Synod: In 897, Pope Stephen VI held a bizarre trial against the corpse of Pope Formosus, accusing him of crimes like perjury and violating church laws. Formosus' decayed body was dressed in papal robes, propped up, and symbolically 'defended' in court.
LQBnr TIL the popular playground game of whispering a phrase down a line has a strange name variation. In the US and Canada, it is called the Telephone Game. In the UK, we call it Chinese Whispers.
mbko TIL During the 1980s the Swiss army fired off shells during an exercise and mistakenly burned a patch of forest inside the country Liechtenstein. The incident was said to have been resolved “over a case of white wine”.
Bgwxy TIL that largest flying creature on earth was an Azhdarchid Pterodactyl named Arambourgiania. It's wings were 12 to 13 meters.
lBWN TIL Medal of Honor recipient Thomas Baker was gravely wounded and had his comrades leave him behind, propped up against a tree with a pistol that had 8 bullets remaining. Later they found his body next to the tree, surrounded by 8 dead Japanese soldiers