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TIL: The founder of the Smithsonian never visited the United States. But in 1901, when his grave in Italy was to be relocated to make room for a quarry, Alexander Graham Bell, a Smithsonian regent, proposed moving his remains to the Smithsonian. So the museum ended up collecting its founders remains

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GdWG TIL According to H.H. Holmes, “Americas first serial killer”, he had a fear of doctors, and his classmates forced him to go in a doctor’s office and stare at a human skeleton. This made him interested in death, and started his obsession with killing animals, and then humans.
oR5EL TIL “Edward Scissorhands” test screenings were so encouraging for 20th Century Fox, the president of the studio considered marketing the film on the scale of “E.T," but decided, “We have to let it find its place. We want to be careful not to hype the movie out of the universe.”
69l48 TIL in order to avoid a $94 AUD excess charge for bringing a second carry-on bag onto his flight, James McElvar (from the group Rewind) decided to empty the bag & put on all of its contents. With 12 layers of clothes on, he became violently sick during the flight & collapsed from heat exhaustion.
WwLN TIL that during a Roman Triumph, which were rare, spectacular parades commemorating the honor awarded to a victorious Roman general by the Senate, a slave would have to accompany the honored while whispering “Remember: you will die” into their ear so that they may not let the honor go to their head.
x67D TIL The daughter of Heinrich Himmler, Hitler’s second in command(and architect of the holocaust) is still alive and is active in Nazi ideology today.