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TIL after being struck by lightning, golfer Lee Trevino was asked if he would do anything different to avoid it. “I’d stand in the fairway with my one iron pointed at the sky,” he said. “Not even God can hit the one iron.”

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awx7A TIL That the creator of Madame Tussauds, Marie Tussaud, was in jail during the French Revolution, awaiting execution by guillotine. She got out under 1 condition: She had to create wax sculptures of the recently guillotined heads of her former employers at Versailles, where she was an art teacher.
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