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TIL that Mozart once composed an aria designed to make a soprano's head bob like a chicken while singing, just to mock her.

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5Vgl9 TIL that South Korea's CIA recruited a suicide squad to kill North Korea's dictator, Kim Il Sung. The squad mutinied, killed their commanders, hijacked a bus to Seoul, and were blown up by their own military. The survivors were then executed.
rRBld TIL the original name of Velcro came from the first syllables of the French words velour (meaning velvet) and crochet (meaning hook), although Georges de Mestral first called it 'locking tape'.
X0mVj TIL Tesla’s OSHA violations made up 75 percent of all the violations among the top 10. From 2014 to 2018, Tesla’s auto production facility in Fremont, California, was issued a total of 54 OSHA violations: three times more than all the top 10 auto plants in the U.S. combined.
mxErO TIL there is a fierce rivalry between the neighbouring English counties of Cornwall & Devon, with each claiming to have invented 'pasties', and each insisting the other is wrong regarding whether to put jam or cream first on scones.
vm8L TIL when lead was removed from gasoline, there was a dramatic decrease in the violent crime rate in the Western World.