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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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nerDY TIL that on 12th April 1945, for their last performance before the end of WW2, the Berlin Philharmonic performed Wagner's 'Götterdämmerung' - Twilight of the Gods - while the Hitler Youth distributed cyanide pills to the audience so they could kill themselves.
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