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L4V9 TIL Soviet composer Dmitri Shostakovich was so obsessive that he regularly sent cards to himself to test how well the postal service was working.
wngE TIL that the real Top Gun school gives a $5 fine to anyone in the staff that quotes the movie
Z8rxv TIL the 1.5-mile-long, 22-foot-high, 4.5-foot-wide granite wall, that currently surrounds the Minnesota State Correctional Facility in St.Cloud, Minnesota, USA is the second largest wall built using inmate labor in the world. The Great Wall of China is the first.
7joM TIL There’s a brewery in Germany that’s almost 1,000 years old. It has been in continuous operation since the year 1040
X0pnD TIL Texas almost sent it's state militia to seize Santa Fe from the United States government by force and could have triggered an earlier American Civil War in the 1850s with prominent Southern and Northern newspapers or legislators warning about this possibility