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TIL of Moctezuma's headdress, a featherwork crown which tradition holds belonged to Moctezuma II, the Aztec emperor at the time of the Spanish Conquest. It is now in the Museum of Ethnology, Vienna, and is a source of dispute between Austria and Mexico, as no similar pieces remain in Mexico.

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78Gd7 TIL that German scientists in the 1930s were the first to conceive of the atom bomb, but their research was abruptly ended in 1939 when the government conscripted them. The Nazis never got close to making a functional atom bomb because their scientists were in the battlefield.
neXK7 TIL in 1943, Stanisława Leszczyńska, a Polish Catholic and professional midwife, was arrested by the Gestapo for aiding Jews. Sent to Auschwitz, she was assigned to work at the camp’s “maternity ward” and spent the remainder of the war delivering three thousand babies in unthinkable conditions
AKPd TIL that not only was Tim Curry Tim Burton’s second choice for The Joker in 1989’s BATMAN, he also was the voice of The Joker for four episodes of Batman: The Animated Series before his performance was deemed “too scary for children.”
OG6RY TIL when the 1984 film “Red Dawn” was in production, it was reported that a T-72 tank built for the film was such a precise replica, that while it was being carted around Los Angeles, two CIA intelligence officers followed the tank to the movie studio wanting to know where it had come from.
V41Z TIL that there is an optical illusion called the McCullough Effect that is so powerful, ten minutes of exposure can cause you to see colors that are not there for up to a month.