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TIL Visitors entering the Catacombs of Paris are greeted with the chilling message Arrête, c’est ici l’empire de la mort (Halt! This is the empire of the dead!).

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6E1DJ TIL that Michael Crichton, author of Jurassic Park and many more novels, graduated Harvard Medical School with his MD. He never obtained his medical license (after deciding he hated the system and culture), and instead pursued writing.
BZyx TIL in 2009 Stephen Colbert won a NASA competition to have a module of the ISS named after him, but NASA opted to name it ‘Tranquility’ instead. They did, however, name a treadmill on the ISS after him. It is called the Combined Operational Load Bearing External Resistance Treadmill (C.O.L.B.E.R.T.)
Rd11 TIL The CBS radio broadcast of H.G. Wells’ “War of the Worlds” did not actually cause mass hysteria or panic
aNoo TIL- When the management at her Ravenswood apartment building barred Mae West’s African-American boxing champion boyfriend, William Jones from entering the premises, West solved the problem by buying the building and lifting the ban.
91rB TIL only one year ago scientists discovered that there are 3 trillion trees on Earth, seven times more than it was previously assumed