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TIL synthetic shampoos weren’t invented until the 1930s, with daily shampooing only becoming the norm in the 1970s and 1980s.

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xVD67 TIL a dead girl was found in the River Seine in France in the 1880s. The coroner was so infatuated with her that he took a mold of her face. Her face became a morbid fascination and many copies were made. When the first CPR dummy was made, it used her face and has since continued to.
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