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TIL there is a “secret” entrance to the Louvre that allows you to bypass the ridiculous line at the public entrance.

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N7dZN TIL Tesla and Newton both were celibate and died as virgins. Einstein slept for 10 hours a day.
4yjJ TIL Neil Patrick Harris earned $210K per episode of How I Met Your Mother, while the rest of the cast only earned $120K per episode.
b97WQ TIL candle wax has ”memory”. If you don’t burn it all the way out to the edges the first time you light it, it will only burn to the same point it was melted at the first time. Resulting in a “tunnel”, faster burn time, and wasting the wax that doesn’t melt.
8eleG TIL the US rationed Coffee for a period of time during WWII, limiting households to 1 pound every 5 weeks, averaging out to one cup per day per household. The rationing began in November 1942 and ended in July 1943.
OEwL TIL 17 Mexican-Americans were tried for a murder and convicted without evidence or due process. L. A. sheriff testified, “Mexicans as a community had a "blood thirst” and a “biological predisposition” to crime and killing, citing the culture of human sacrifice practiced by their Aztec ancestors.“