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Eve, a Siamang ape, decided to "adopt" a bird that found its way into her enclosure
u/Mors_Acerba — 12 hours ago
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TIL After Roman general Gaius Hostilius Mancinus negotiated a humiliating treaty with the Numantines, the roman senate refused to ratify it. In order to absolve themselves of having violated the treaty, the Romans delivered Mancinus to the Numantines in chains, and he willingly accepted his faith
en.wikipedia.orgu/Mors_Acerba — 22 hours ago
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TIL Not only did the Spartans resist minting any gold or silver coins until 310 BC, but their iron currency was quenched in vinegar during the minting process, making the currency even less valuable than the raw iron that was used to make it
en.wikipedia.orgu/Mors_Acerba — 1 day ago
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16 year old Edwin Quintero scores on his senior debut for Independiente Del Valle. He also went through a rite of passage according to which senior players are allowed to do w/e they want with his hair
u/Mors_Acerba — 1 day ago
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TIL Of Laudatio Turiae, the longest private inscription in classic latin. Originaly it was two marble slabs weighting 1.5 tons each and standing at 259 centimetres(102 inches) high. Its an epitaph dedicated by a husband to his late wife and celebrating her life achievements
en.wikipedia.orgu/Mors_Acerba — 2 days ago
TIL The first diplomatic contacts between The Tsar and the Chinese emperor in the 17th century was marred with miscommunication due to the language barrier. It took 3 diplomatic trips for the Chinese to realise that the diplomats represented the same people who were raiding them at the Amur river
en.wikipedia.orgu/Mors_Acerba — 3 days ago
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TIL in the 1500s, Niccolo Machiavelli and his group of friends were accused of being part of a secret club that engaged in illicit sex and gambling activities that they would perform while masked up and using codenames
academia.eduu/Mors_Acerba — 4 days ago
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[The Athletic] Paris Saint-Germain do not need to sell Bradley Barcola[...] PSG feel the speculated market rate for Barcola, who is not for sale, is way off and he should be valued at a much higher price than the £116m Manchester City will pay for Elliot Anderson.
nytimes.comu/Mors_Acerba — 6 days ago
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TIL Cato's failed campaign for Consul has been accused as performative, because he run by offering no bribes or big promises. He also passed a law requiring officials to disclose financial records as a way to stop candidates buying votes. It failed, as selling votes was a source of income for many
en.wikipedia.orgu/Mors_Acerba — 6 days ago
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TIL The fall of the caroligian empire in medieval France led to an outburst of violence, such that the church had to set up rules of engagement. Violence against certain groups, like women, was prohibited, same as raiding on Sundays or feast days. Aquinas argued that war on feast days was ok
en.wikipedia.orgu/Mors_Acerba — 7 days ago
TIL in 55 B.C Julius Caesar attacked two germanic tribes during a truce and massacred 400,000 including women and children. It was a major Roman victory, but Cato the younger believed that the violation of the truce was a crime. He suggested turning Caesar over to the enemy so that Rome could atone
en.wikipedia.orgu/Mors_Acerba — 7 days ago
A number of the Herculaneum papyri, discovered in the library of a roman Villa that was destroyed in the Vesuvius eruption, were tossed away in the 19th century because people mistook them for pieces of burned charcoal. Scientists have now managed to digitally unwrap and read them
u/Mors_Acerba — 8 days ago
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TIL in exchange for keeping the Ottoman Sultan's brother and throne claimant captive in Rome, The Sultan paid the Pope 100k crowns (equal to the Papacy's yearly revenue), an annual fee of 45k ducats and a holy relic. After the brother died, the Pope demanded more money in order to return his corpse
en.wikipedia.orgu/Mors_Acerba — 9 days ago
TIL Dionysius I, ruler of Syracuse, wrote poetry which wasn't always well received. After Philoxenus, another poet, criticised his work, Dionysius imprisoned him for a day. He then released him, read him another poem and asked for his opinion. Philoxenus replied "take me back to the quarries"
en.wikipedia.orgu/Mors_Acerba — 11 days ago
Before his death in 1410, Francesco Datini established a charity fund to which he bequeathed most of his considerable fortune. In 1870, under a stairwell at his former residence, now beloning to the fund, Datini's archive was discovered: 150,000 documents including 500 accounting books
u/Mors_Acerba — 11 days ago
TIL George Costentenus, a man tattoed from head to bottom, earned around 100$ a day(1600$ in 2026 values) while working for P.T Barnum's circus in the 1870s. He could speak Albanian, Greek, Arabic, Persian, French, Spanish, Italian, German, and English, partially verifying his unlikely life story
en.wikipedia.orgu/Mors_Acerba — 12 days ago
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TIL In 1509 Francesco Gonzaga of Mantua was taken prisoner, so his famous wife, Isabella D'este, took control of the army, drove off the invaders and ruled in his place for 3 years. She did so good that when Francesco was released, he felt embarassed, which put a permanent rift on their marriage
en.wikipedia.orgu/Mors_Acerba — 14 days ago
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TIL Overrun by athenian troops, the 292 Spartans who were defending the uninhabited Island of Sphacteria, were ordered by the mainland to "make your decision yourselves but do nothing dishonorable". Their decision to surrender instead of dying in battle was so shocking it changed the war's momentum
en.wikipedia.orgu/Mors_Acerba — 15 days ago
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TIL Queen Joanna of Castile was declared insane by the courts, stripped of all power and eventually confined in isolation, but whether she was actually mentaly ill, is debatable. Evidence suggests that her father, her husband and later her son conspired to steal her throne by declaring her insane
en.wikipedia.orgu/Mors_Acerba — 16 days ago