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yVpa TIL JS Bach wrote a cantata extolling the virtues of coffee. Lyrics include, “If I can’t drink my bowl of coffee three times daily, then in my torment, I will shrivel up like a piece of roast goat.”
jGpM TIL the Walmart heirs are funding an anti-solar campaign.
EgYDP TIL how the United States declared the end of WWII, on September 2, 1945. General Douglas MacArthur accepted Japan's formal surrender aboard the USS Missouri, which was anchored in Tokyo Bay with a fleet of almost 250 Allied vessels.
v10lK TIL that the 1905 film The Little Train Robbery is the first ever parody film. The film is a sequel to the serious 1903 film The Great Train Robbery. Both films had the same director.
X9X6 TIL Master Chief is 6'10" without armour and 7'2" with armour.