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TIL green coloured clothing was rare in Europe up until arsenic-based green dyes were invented in the late-1700s. Before that, to create green the fabric first had to be dyed yellow and then dyed again with an expensive blue dye. Results with this process were inconsistent & hard to control.

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L1ov TIL Michael Keaton vetoed Michelle Pfeiffer playing Vicki Vale in Tim Burton’s Batman as they had previously been in a relationship and he thought it too awkward. She would later star opposite him in Batman Returns.
wQ0W TIL that Paul Rudd and Jeffrey Dean Morgan purchased an upstate NY candy shop after the original owner had passed away. They were both friends with the proprietor and wanted to keep the his legacy alive.
DQdZj TIL about Albert Severin Roche, a distinguished French soldier who was found sleeping during duty and sentenced to death for it. A messenger arrived right before his execution and told the true story: Albert had crawled 10 hours under fire to rescue his captain and then collapsed from exhaustion.
xomD TIL When King Charles II of Navarre was deathly ill, his physician ordered him to be wrapped and sewn into bed sheets that had been pre-soaked in brandy. A careless servant used a candle to burn the loose thread away, which set fire to the cloth and burned the king alive.
7rajx TIL that up until the late 1960s, all 250,000 bagels made daily in NYC were handmade by just 350 artisans who were members of the NYC Bagel Union