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Madame Tussaud made death masks to survive
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The global empire of unsettlingly realistic celebrity figures has intensely gruesome origins. During the French Revolution, Marie Tussaud literally proved her loyalty to the new regime by digging through massive piles of severed heads to cast wax molds of executed royals. Her survival strategy eventually morphed into a massive tourist trap.
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