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TIL of Minik Wallace, a Greenlandic child brought to New York in 1897 and studied by a museum, who held custody. After many of his companions died of tuberculosis, the museum faked a burial of his father and secretly put his skeleton on display. 20 years later, Minik would die in 1918 of influenza.
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TIL When Alfred Douglas (the lover of Oscar Wilde) fell ill with influenza, Wilde helped nurse him back to health, but when Wilde subsequently fell ill, Douglas moved out into a luxurious hotel, and sent Wilde a letter on his 40th birthday informing him that he was charging him the hotel bill.
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