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TIL Ivan the Terrible was so impressed with the construction of St. Basil’s Cathedral that he had the architect blinded so that he could never design anything as beautiful again.

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44Eb TIL That the cash cab taxi once struck and killed a pedestrian.
DQn1j TIL that before Jim Henson created The Muppets, he did a series of commercials where a Kermit-like puppet uses extreme violence and straight up murder to promote Wilkins Coffee.
mXkx TIL there is no Nobel Prize for Economics. The Economics Prize is not awarded by the Nobel-Committee, but Sweden’s Central Bank against the wishes of the Nobel Family and has nothing to do with the original award
4XQ9a TIL Albert Camus had a life long fear of automobiles. When he started writing about Absurdism, he wrote: "the most absurd way to die is in a car crash". He died of a car crash on 4 January, 1960.
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