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TIL The step-grandchildren of Joseph Goebbels control 46% of BMW

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VM58 TIL Mozart wrote a “mirror” duet for two violins. The second violin’s part is played by turning the sheet music upside down and using the same notes. I feel I should quit music now.
b9VvE TIL that Cheap Trick has performed live more than 3,700 times.
16QbW TIL John Walsh, host of "America's Most Wanted," became an advocate for missing children after his son Adam was abducted and murdered in 1981. His advocacy led to changes in laws and the creation of the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children. His show helped capture over 1,200 fugitives.
jW1a TIL Killer Whales are able to learn to speak Dolphin. When killer whales were socialized with bottlenose dolphins at a water facility, they changed the types of sounds they made to resemble those of their social partners
gMejX TIL that the common practice of adding "All rights reserved" to copyright notices came from a treaty in 1910, but as of 2000 it has become obsolete and is no longer needed.