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TIL Madame Tussaud (of the famous wax museums) got her start casting guillotined heads during the French Revolution.

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woP67 TIL Nine Inch Nails' Trent Reznor was the final resident of the infamous 10050 Cielo Drive house before it was razed--the house was the site of the Manson Family murders of Sharon Tate and her friends. Reznor recorded most of his career-defining album, 'The Downward Spiral' there.
7ZWM TIL that scientists recently discovered a 3500 year old tablet containing what is believed to be the world’s oldest recorded “yo mamma” joke.
QJRb9 TIL The bellybutton is so dirty scientists are finding new unknown bacteria. One person had bacterium previously found only on Japanese soil, where he had never been.
oBkEo TIL In 1670 a native american tribe decided to travel to Europe to sell pelts after being scammed by colonists. They spent months building a fleet of ships only to have rough sea destroy it as soon as they began the voyage, the natives were saved by the British who then sold them into slavery.
n50r TIL Nepal is the only country in the world to have a non-quadrilateral flag.