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TIL Madame Tussaud, of Wax Museum fame, was an artist in the court of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette. During the French Revolution, she was forced to make wax death masks of both of their faces immediately after they were guillotined.

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XEbgk TIL in 1872, a group of hunters in India captured and 'saved' a 6-year-old feral boy they saw trailing behind a pack of wolves in the forest. The boy only ate meat, despised wearing clothes, sharpened his teeth on bones and communicated in animal noises. He might've served as inspiration for Mowgli
AGxx TIL That in 1984 Micheal Jackson Owned Half The Rights Of The Beatles Back Catalog Giving Him 50% Of All Royaltys Over Sir Paul Mccartney Who Still Had To Pay MJ To Even Perform Them Untill 2013.
b9eyp TIL the bell on early cash registers (circa 1884), not marketing, is why prices like $1.99 rather than $2.00 exist. The 1¢ change back to the customer forced the cashier to open the till, ringing the bell, and make change. Otherwise the sale could more easily be pocketed by the clerk.
XEM7j TIL that AllSpice is not a mixed spice. Also known as Pimenta, AllSpice is made from the dried unripe fruit of Pimenta dioica and originates from Central and South American. It was named ‘Allspice’ by the English because it combined the flavours of clove, nutmeg and cinnamon
5VLrr TIL an analysis found that 43 of the 69 emperors (62%) of the unified Roman Empire, from Augustus (d. 14 CE) to Theodosius (d. 395 CE), suffered a violent death. Either by assassination (the most common mode of death), suicide, or during combat with a foreign enemy of Rome.