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TIL that British Royalty used to place Wax or Wood figures of the deceased on top of their coffin before burial and for display afterward in Westminster Abbey. More than 20 of these funeral effigies, dating back to Edward III from 1377, remain and are on display at the Westminster Abbey Museum.

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loGa5 TIL a Russian woman - angry at being denied French citizenship - once tried to attack the Mona Lisa by throwing a ceramic tea cup at it. Luckily it was ecased in bulletproof glass.
jNOlM TIL Heironymous Bosch's "The Garden of Earthly Delight's" has a tortured soul depicted with music written on his butt. It was transcribed and recorded into music you can listen to.
D7MP TIL The word “Bupkis,” common slang for “nothing,” comes from the Yiddish phrase meaning “having about as much worth as goat turds.”
1aOmX TIL that the first pocket calculator [Curta (Type I) mechanical calculator] was invented by the Jewish inventor Curt Herzstark in Buchenwald concentration camp during WWII. The Nazis planned to make a present of it to Hitler as a gift after the successful end of the war.
nK0b TIL J.K. Rowling is quoted as saying “I have met thousands of children now, and not even one time has a child come up to me and said, ‘Ms Rowling, I’m so glad I’ve read these books because now I want to be a witch” when her books were accused of satanic themes.