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TIL Maurice Sendak, author of Where the Wild Things Are once replied to a young boys fan mail with a hand drawn picture of one of his characters. The boy’s mother wrote back saying simply “Jim loved your card so much he ate it.”

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J1rGl TIL that many cultures believed in the healing power of dog saliva. Ancient Greeks had temple dogs lick wounds, and a French saying goes, “Langue de chien, langue de médecin”-“A dog’s tongue is a doctor’s tongue.” In Assyrian mythology, the dog god Aralez healed warriors by licking their wounds.
epNNn TIL that King Louis XIII of France started to pioneer wig-wearing in 1624, because he had prematurely begun to bald in his twenties. This fashion then spread in Europe and European-influenced countries, and remained a dominant style among men for about 140 years until the French Revolution
OoZoX TIL that the Polish Government in Exile, formed after the Nazi and Soviet invasion in 1939, refused to recognize the Polish People's Republic until fair elections were held. They continued to have a president, PM, and a cabinet that met every week in London until 1990 when democracy was restored
wORJ TIL that when Sebastian Shaw, the face of Darth Vader, showed up on the set of Return of the Jedi, Ian McDiarmid (aka Emperor Palpatine), who was an old friend, asked him what he was doing there. His response: “I don’t know, dear boy, I think it’s something to do with science-fiction.”
R5pnl TIL an actor named Kyle Wyatt is the voice behind the iconic "Mortal Kombat" scream.