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kbb5 TIL that Karoly Takacs won 2 Olympic Gold Metals in shooting. He won a gold medal with his right hand, but after it was mutilated by a grenade, he won a gold medal with his left hand instead.
6EVKm TIL that a dead pope once got put on trial in the year 897. They dug up Pope Formosus, propped his corpse up on a throne and they actually asked the fucker questions and a Deacon answered on behalf of him. And they found him guilty of perjury.
v1mjB TIL that in 1971, the original tapes for Monty Python were almost erased and destroyed by the BBC. This was intended as a cost saving measure to reuse the tapes. Terry Gilliam bought them all and saved them.
5drr TIL that during his trial in Florida, Ted Bundy became legally married using an obscure law that any marriage declaration in court, in the presence of a judge, constituted a legal marriage.
NjwP TIL (When looking back at how big France has played apart in American history) Congress wore black and mourning badges for 30 days after Lafayette’s death, the same treatment Washington got.