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TIL That the creator of Madame Tussauds, Marie Tussaud, was in jail during the French Revolution, awaiting execution by guillotine. She got out under 1 condition: She had to create wax sculptures of the recently guillotined heads of her former employers at Versailles, where she was an art teacher.

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