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TIL According to his widow, Constanze, Mozart received the commission for composing his Requiem from a mysterious messenger who did not reveal the commissioner's identity, and that Mozart came to believe that he was writing the requiem for his own funeral.

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k68d TIL–As Zelda Fitzgerald, Author F.Scott Fitzgerald’s wife, emerged from the anesthesia after giving birth, Scott recorded Zelda saying, “I hope it’s beautiful and a fool—a beautiful little fool.” This was a line later used for Daisy Buchanan within the Great Gatsby.
j6dj TIL A family foreclosed a bank for trying to foreclose them illegally, and then not paying the legal fees when the family won.
BlxL TIL that Dragonflies have a high power/weight ratio, and have been documented accelerating at 4 G linearly and 9 G in sharp turns while pursuing prey.
VB0v4 TIL there is a tiny strip of land within Yellowstone Park called the “Zone of Death”. A constitutional quirk would allow a murder or other crime to take place, but not have enough resident to form a jury. Theoretically allowing a “get away with murder free zone”.
VMnjQ TIL Princess Diana was 19 when Prince Charles, 31, proposed to her. Because royal custom required Charles marry a virgin nearly every other woman of good lineage nearer his age was disqualified.