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Petition to get u/Key_Ad8003 hanged for his crimes against Cummy

by CopyPastaArchive January 11, 2022, 7:36 pm

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TIL that in the 19th century, French doctor Louis Auzoux created papier-mâché models of the human body. Bodies of hanged murderers served as models for dr Auzoux, which is why his models have a head tilting forward (from the noose) and an erect penis (pressure on the cerebellum caused by the noose)

by whatilearned December 8, 2021, 2:55 pm

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TIL In 1848 Irish Nationalist Thomas Meagher was sentenced to be “hanged, drawn and quartered”. Instead he was exiled to Tasmania. He escaped, became a Civil War Brigadier General and the Governor of Montana Territory. While Governor, he fell into the Missouri River and his body was never found.

by whatilearned November 26, 2021, 4:29 am

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TIL only one woman’s head was ever displayed on London Bridge after execution, that of Catholic nun and prophetess Elizabeth Barton who was hanged for treason against Henry VIII

by whatilearned November 25, 2021, 9:58 pm

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TIL Guy Fawkes became involved with a small group of English Catholics, led by Robert Catesby, who planned to assassinate the Protestant King James and replace him with his daughter. After the plot failed and Fawkes was captured, he gave up his seven co-conspirators — all of whom were hanged.

by whatilearned November 6, 2021, 3:27 pm

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TIL that when the British monarchy was restored in 1660 under Charles II, the body of Oliver Cromwell was dug up, hanged in chains and beheaded as a posthumous execution for the crime of signing Charles I’s death warrant. His head was then owned by various people till its burial in 1960.

by whatilearned October 17, 2021, 6:15 pm

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TIL that the largest mass execution in American history occurred under Abraham Lincoln’s watch. On December 26, 1862, 38 Dakota warriors were publicly hanged after being convicted of war crimes.

by whatilearned October 11, 2021, 12:08 pm

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TIL in 1752 a Scottish soldier was hanged for murder. His corpse was donated to the Surgeon’s Hall for medical research. However the ‘dead man’ suddenly awoke on the operating table. The surgeon promptly beat him to death with a wooden mallet.

by whatilearned August 7, 2021, 2:22 pm

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TIL Michael Vick didn’t just run a dog-fighting ring, he personally killed several dogs. Some were shot; some were hanged; some were hosed down, then electrocuted; some were slammed on the ground; some were drowned in a bucket of water. Vick served 21 months, then got a $5M contract with the Jets.

by whatilearned July 25, 2021, 4:58 pm

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TIL a legend goes that during the Napoleonic Wars a French ship sunk off the coast of a British town named Hartlepool. The only survivor was a monkey dressed in a French uniform. Being in Northern England, no one had seen a Frenchman before, so they thought the monkey was a French spy and hanged it.

by whatilearned July 6, 2021, 4:32 pm

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TIL that a hairless cyclops deformed piglet was stillborn in 1642 and it looked so much like a local man, George Spencer, that he was brought before a magistrate on suspicion of unnatural relations. He confessed and recanted, but ultimately Spencer was hanged and the mother pig put to the sword.

by whatilearned June 4, 2021, 9:41 pm

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TIL as a young boy Yuri Gagarin (first man in space) had his village occupied by nazis, his family forced to work while living in a 3 by 3 meter mud hut for 21 months, saw his little brother being hanged (but saved by his parents) and his two older siblings deported for slave labor (who escaped).

by whatilearned May 21, 2021, 11:49 am

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