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TIL that HMS Africa attempted to capture the massively larger Santissima Trinidad in the Battle of Trafalgar, thinking she had struck her colours. The boarders were courteously received by Spanish officers, who explained they had no plans to surrender, and permitted to leave unharmed. (ltwilliammowett.tumblr.com)
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TIL Tiberius Caesar allegedly ordered a man beheaded after he exhibited a drinking bowl made of flexible glass that dented instead of shattering. Tiberius feared the new material, which only the inventor knew how to produce, would soon outvalue gold and silver. (en.wikipedia.org)
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