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neOpo TIL In 2016, the Ripley’s Believe It or Not Museum in Hollywood paid $4.8 million for Marilyn Monroe's “Happy Birthday, Mr. President” dress that Monroe wore at JFK's 45th birthday celebration. The purchase cements it as one of the most expensive pieces of pop-culture memorabilia of all time.
D1J TIL That Actor Christopher Lee, Witnessed the Last Public Guillotine Execution in France.
5YNZn TIL that each year, a social group called the Alfalfa Club, which includes elites from both business and government, celebrate General Robert E. Lee's birthday with a banquet
gr8Yy TIL Canada did not have official residences for its political leaders until 1950. Laurier House in Ottawa was home to two Canadian Prime Ministers in the decades prior and served as PM Mackenzie King's unofficial office where he conducted much of the nation's business
loNx1 TIL the first virus discovered is the Tobacco mosaic virus, over 100 years ago. It causes a mosaic looking disease in tobacco plants; it can survive for years in cigars and cigarettes made from infected leaves. Wendell Stanley won the Nobel Prize in 1946 for discovering that it's made from protein.