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TIL Mr. Deeds is a remake of a 1936 film titled "Mr. Deeds goes to Town"

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Z89GB TIL that while the guillotine was being prototyped, King Louis XVI "recommended that an oblique blade be used instead of a crescent blade, lest the blade not fit all necks". His own was "offered up discreetly as an example". He was later beheaded in 1793 during the French Revolution.
DQP4p TIL that Sigmund Rascher, a scientist who performed inhumane medical experiments at Dachau, was himself imprisoned and executed by the Nazis at Dachau after it was revealed that he and his wife were committing fraud by kidnapping (German) babies.
ZpgNR TIL that the Roman emperor Vespasian did not in fact issue a tax on urinating in public latrines but instead on the distribution of urine collected from Rome's public urinals
7XPX TIL - Two French officers dueled each other 30 times over the course of 19 years
pnyG TIL that while filming Zodiac, Robert Downey Jr would discreetly pee into jars and leave them in corners of the set as protest for not getting enough break time.