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TIL Mozart pirated a piece of music by writing it down from memory.

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Y9MA TIL, John Travolta spoke to a recovering heroin addict during his research for Vincent Vega. The addict, a friend of Quentin Tarantino, suggested Travolta get drunk on tequila and lie in a hot pool, as this would be the closest representation of heroin’s effects without actually it.
rjOx TIL in 2000 a Korean couple spent their life savings to bring a Pan Am 747 to Seoul and set it up as a restaurant. The restaurant failed, leaving the couple living in a hut below the airplane. The 747 was torn down for scrap metal in 2010.
VM04Z TIL The FBI attempted to blackmail Martin Luther King into suicide, instructing him to acquiesce and commit suicide prior to accepting his Nobel Peace Award. "There is only one way out for you. You better take it before your filthy, abnormal, fraudulent self is bared to the nation"
96GM TIL that in the film, “This is the End”, Michael Cera slapping Rihanna’s butt was real. Cera asked for Rihanna’s permission to actually slap her butt. She agreed, only if she was allowed to slap Cera back even harder in the face.
Ypm8d TIL: Weightlifter Chua Koon Siong fainted for seven minutes after smashing his face with the barbell during his first lift at the 1981 Commonwealth Weightlifting Championship. Still bleeding, he completed his remaining lifts and won the gold medal with a final lift of 137.5 kg.