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TIL that Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor had an extramarital sexual relationship with his own step-grandmother, Germaine de Foix, who was one of his many mistresses. Charles later married his first cousin, Isabella of Portugal. His sister, Eleanor, married Isabella’s father and her uncle, King Manuel.

by whatilearned September 12, 2022, 7:34 pm

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TIL that Catherine Schell – the actress who played Maya in “Space: 1999” (1975-77) – is a great-niece of King Louis XIV of France, Philippe II, Duke of Orléans, 7th Prime-Minister of France, and Franz I & II & III, 50th Holy Roman Emperor and 8th Grand-Duke of Tuscany and former Duke of Lorraine.

by whatilearned September 12, 2022, 1:17 am

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TIL Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan’s throne took 7 years to make, costing 4X as much as the World famous Taj Mahal – More than 2500 lbs. of gold and 500 lbs. of precious gemstones were embedded in the Throne and yes, the Koh-i-Noor Diamond was just one of them

by whatilearned September 10, 2022, 11:52 am

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TIL of Elagabalus, Roman emperor who preferred to be addressed as Lady or Queen, wore wigs and makeup and offered a fortune to any physician who could provide him with a vagina making him the first person in recorded history to seek sex reassignment surgery.

by whatilearned September 5, 2022, 8:07 pm

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TIL that Nader shah, the emperor of Persia, invaded India in 1738 and sacked Delhi. The Mughal emperor was forced to give up the royal treasury and the Peacock Throne to him and a fine of 20 million rupees was levied against Delhi. Nader shah then stoped taxation in Persia for three years.

by whatilearned September 4, 2022, 7:54 pm

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TIL in 2001, the Japanese emperor admitted the ancient Korean blood (Baekje royal family) in the “unbroken” imperial line of Japan, and Korean influence in the formative years (7~9th century) of Japan. In Korea it became front-page news, while in Japan most media stayed silent

by whatilearned September 1, 2022, 7:55 pm

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TIL Gandalfs stand at Minas Tirith in The Lord of The Rings books was based on a real bishop who mounted a hopeless defense against the Magyars until the emperor came to relieve him with an army of heavy knights.

by whatilearned August 11, 2022, 11:48 am

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TIL Maximinus Thrax ignited the Crisis of the Third Century when he assassinated Roman Emperor Alexander Severus and seized the throne. A peasant by birth, his misrule led to his assassination and the near collapse of the empire

by whatilearned August 3, 2022, 5:21 pm

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The Father, the Son, and the Emperor of mankind

by CopyPastaArchive July 31, 2022, 11:16 pm

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TIL about Yukio Mishima, author and right wing activist who after joining the the SDF at 45 tried to spark a coup aimed at restoring the emperor and shogunate, barricaded in an office of a high rank officer committed seppuku. His second failed 3x to sever his head, another friend needed to step in.

by whatilearned July 25, 2022, 11:20 am

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TIL that Jean-Bédel Bokassa declared himself emperor of Central Africa with a coronation ceremony in 1977 that was almost an exact copy of Napoleon’s coronation costing nearly $20M ($90M today), almost bankrupting the country. He was overthrown less than 2 years later.

by whatilearned July 24, 2022, 10:14 pm

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TIL about Abul-Abbas. An elephant sent by the caliph Harun al-rashid ibn Muhammad al-Mahdi to the holy Roman emperor Charlemagne as a gift that symbolized the beginning of Abbasid-Carolingian relations. The elephant died in 810 just as charlemagne crossed the rhine.

by whatilearned July 23, 2022, 6:33 pm

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