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TIL Dead Skin Cells are a Main Ingredient In Household Dust

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E1AGV TIL that after inventing the lie detector, William Moulton Marston was asked to create and develop a superhero for DC Comics. At his wife's insistence that the superhero be female, Marston created Wonder Woman.
BrmYW TIL the husband of Crown Princess Victoria of Sweden, Daniel Westling, was born on the day her father, King Gustav XVI, ascended the throne.
6EBlZ TIL only 1 woman ever won the medal of honour & they tried to take it away from her. She was an early feminist & nurse who refused to wear women’s clothing & was disliked by the leading suffragists who said she was giving the “wrong image” for her clothing style.
GN0g TIL Dalia Dippolito, the woman sentenced to 20 years for hiring a hitman to kill her husband in 2009, is currently still only on house arrest 5 years later. Despite everything being video recorded.
n5PB TIL That Alec Guinness negotiated a deal for his salary as Obi Wan Kenobi with George Lucas by deciding he would receive 2.25% of the total profits made by the entire “Star Wars” franchise, which in total is roughly $60 Million dollars