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TIL Lego originally made wooden toys

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R5bn8 TIL that Oscar Wilde's tomb was literally destroyed by kisses. Traditionally, visitors to the tomb would kiss it after applying lipstick, which caused it to weaken over time as cleaning operations to remove the lipstick grease caused the stone to become more porous.
woMM1 TIL Only One Person Has Been Kicked Out of The College of Cardinals, Étienne Charles de Loménie de Brienne in 1791
wRr8 TIL during MKUltra the CIA roofied their own agents: “surprise acid trips became something of an occupational hazard among CIA operatives”.
yVjjM TIL American writer Cormac McCarthy wrote 10 books and an estimated 5 million words on a 1963 Olivetti Lettera 32 typewriter. It sold at auction in 2009 for $254,500. The next day McCarthy received the same model from a friend as a replacement that cost $20.
LkBdP TIL when polygamist cult leader Rulon Jeffs died in 2002, 18 of his 20 wives married his son Warren Jeffs within a week's time.