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TIL “Where the Wild Things Are” was originally going to be “Where the Wild Horses Are” until Maurice Sendak started working on it and discovered he couldn’t draw horses

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1awYd TIL in 1909 a peddler was arrested for causing a crowd to collect. As the peddler was selling catnip, the crowd was a crowd of cats that were following him.
GAorJ TIL when the Eiffel Tower was proposed, anglers in Paris feared that the tower would discharge lightning into the Seine and kill all the fish
Pbnn TIL Kurt Gödel died of starvation when his wife was hospitalized. Gödel suffered from extreme paranoia and refused to eat food prepared by anyone else.
J1MyB TIL Iguanas have a so-called “third eye” on the top of their heads. Known as the parietal eye, it looks like a pale scale and can't discern shapes or color—but does sense light and movement, helping iguanas anticipate predatory birds from above.
LArd TIL that an estimated 2 million German women were raped during the later part of WWII. The majority of the rapes took place in the Soviet occupation zone. This is considered by some to be the “greatest phenomenon of mass rape in history”.