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9wlQm TIL when President Charles De Gaulle visited Harold McMillan at his home in Birch Grove in 1961, the French Secret Service put a special fridge in the coach house filled with De Gaulle's blood in case of an assassination attempt. A Daily Mail reporter was also bitten on his behind by a police dog.
yVK1p TIL There's a branch of science called necrobiotics which can turn spider corpses into robots
78OkL TIL Candlewicks are asymmetrical braiding. When it burns it curls on that side. Before that invention you had to trim the wick every few hours as your candle would smoke.
0k65 TIL two 300-ton weights sit at opposite ends of the 58th floor of the Hancock Tower in Boston because occupants on higher floors were getting motion sickness during high winds.
W7V5A TIL: Kobe Bryant's "33" High School basketball jersey was stolen in 2017 and sold to a collector in China who returned it after suspecting it was stolen.