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JP94 TIL Jeanne de Clisson, a Frenchwoman whose husband was beheaded for treason, swore revenge and sold her family lands to buy 3 warships. For the next 13 years she went on a pirating binge, targeting King Philip VI’s ships, & personally beheading French noblemen she captured with an axe.
R7oa6 TIL Marie Curie's belongings will be radioactive for another 1,500 years and all guests are expected to sign a liability waiver and wear protective gear to get access as the items are contaminated with radium 226. Her body is also radioactive and was placed in a coffin lined with lead.
WW68 TIL “Walking Corpse Syndrome” is a mental condition in which sufferers believe they are missing internal organs, have no blood, or that they are dead outright. PET scans of a patient showed he exhibited brain activity similar to someone asleep or under anaesthesia
YpdZA TIL, Joe Montana sued his ex-wife Moses for "violating his 'copyright and privacy rights'" after Moses "sold a bunch of letters and memorabilia from [Montana's] college days at Notre Dame", back in 2008.
9dAM TIL Eminem repeated the 9th grade 3 times before dropping out of school