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TIL That Marie 'Madame' Tussaud owes part of her fame to the French Revolution. Originally slated for execution due to her connection with French nobility she was spared and subsequently began making wax casts of some of the revolution's more famous victims including Louis XVI and Marie Antoniette.

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