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TIL about Louise Farrenc, a French composer and the only woman to hold the postion of Professor of Piano at the Paris Conservatory in the 19th century

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lo1AN TIL of Katalin Karády a Hungarian actress in the '40s who was jailed, tortured and nearly beaten to death for allegedly spying and her movies and songs got banned. Later she emigrated to New York and opened a hat salon. When she was invited back to Hungary she didn't go but sent them a hat instead.
9yVX TIL approximately 70,000 people a year have feet amputated due to diabetes in the USA alone.
N7OAE Today I learned that Grover Cleveland became the first sitting president to get married. He married a woman 27 years younger than him, Frances Folsom, whom he had literally known since her birth. After Folsom's father died when she was 11, Cleveland became her legal guardian.
b9B10 TIL 48222 is the United States only floating zip code. The JW Wescott II is a boat on the Detroit River that delivers and picks up mail to passing freighters
xVKKb TIL that after H. P. Lovecraft's grandmother died when he was five years old, his mother and aunts began wearing black dresses around the house to mourn her. These "terrified" Lovecraft, and he began to have nightmares about them, which also involved some of the creatures he would later write about.