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TIL that Oscar Wilde's tomb was literally destroyed by kisses. Traditionally, visitors to the tomb would kiss it after applying lipstick, which caused it to weaken over time as cleaning operations to remove the lipstick grease caused the stone to become more porous.

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v1k7 TIL in 1692, an impoverished widow and mother of 8 named Susannah Martin fell victim to the Salem Witch Trials and was hanged. Her great-great-great-great Grandson would become the 21st President of the US, Chester A. Arthur.
9wvE6 TIL Yamaha has been one of the leading piano manufacturers since the 1950's. They began building engines for propellors and airplanes during World War II. After the war, Yamaha used the new technology to build their first motorcycle engine, thus introducing Yamaha Motors to Yamaha Music.
gkP8 TIL that in the Pokemon episode “The Whistle Stop” one of the characters (James) starts to get eaten by one of his own Pokemon and speaks gibberish; when played backwards, it is “Leo Burnett and 4Kids are the Devil!”. This was as a protest when the voice actors wouldn’t be paid for commercial work.
Ool7 TIL a man built a restaurant in Northern Iraq called MaDonal’s after McDonald’s turned denied his request. The restaurant serves items such as “Big Macks,” and serves free food to U.S. forces, and thus has been threatened by suicide bombers, turning the man into a local celebrity.
5Y1Wr TIL that 26.82 million air tickets as well as 5.96 million high-speed rail tickets have been denied to chinese people whom were deemed untrustworthy, because of a bad social credit score.