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TIL that the Rose of Versailles Helped Inspire Sailor Moon

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DojJ TIL of “incest corpse powder”, a powder witches use to “curse” people, made from dried semen produced from intercourse with the corpse of a female relative.
WxGo TIL Joss Whedon wrote 98.9 percent of the dialogue for the movie Speed, uncredited
5VmJD TIL that during WWII, Jewish physicist Niels Bohr was smuggled out of Denmark via Sweden to work on the Manhattan project. However, he refused to go to America unless Sweden granted asylum to Denmark’s Jews. 99% of them were saved.
Z8P4G TIL that multi-platinum R&B/Pop singer Keri Hilson dissed Beyonce and received overwhelming backlash, causing her to fall into a 9-year depression. She hasn't released any music in 9 years and now considers herself washed up. She's only 37 years old.
W7NGN TIL in 2007 two Americans re-discovered Pure Nacional cacao trees thought to have been completely wiped out by disease in the early 20th century. The ancient Nacional varietal was cultivated more than 5,000 years ago, and is thought to produce the world’s most exquisite (and expensive) chocolate.