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TIL ‘The Grinch’ Makeup Artist, Kazuhiro Tsuji, Checked Into Therapy Because of Jim Carrey

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m15Kx TIL that During the Victorian Era, rich English people would host “unwrapping” parties with genuine Egyptian mummies.
R5Lrl TIL there were Greek Buddhist monks long before there were Thai, Tibetan, Chinese or Japanese Buddhist monks.
5YNQk TIL BORTAC is the tactical unit of the United States Border Patrol and is equivalent to SWAT. Members have operated in 28 countries around the world. They've been used as event security for the Super Bowl and to assist in quelling civil unrest in the United States
Ypgrr TIL that Helen Magill White was the first American woman to earn a PhD. Raised by a Quaker father who believed she have the same education as her brothers, Helen attended Boston University, where in 1877, she earned a doctorate in Greek. Her thesis “the Greek Drama” was discovered at Cornell in 2018
awgjo TIL about "Stolpersteine" (german for stumbling stones) which are small cobblestones with the names and fates of Nazi Victims. They are placed all over Europe in front of the last free home the victim had before deportation. Over 70,000 have been placed so far.