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TIL an 8 year old can compose an Opera called, "The Sweeper of Dreams"

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e8Ng TIL the Emperor of Japan isn’t allowed to eat Fugu (pufferfish) for his own safety.
rnNo TIL that former USSR Lt. Col. Stanislav Petrov prevented a nuclear holocaust and potentially WWIII by going with his “gut feeling” and believing that the USSR’s early-warning satellite signal was faulty when it reported that the US had launched 5 ballistic missiles at them
6EW4w TIL Ivan Kharchenko was named a Hero of the Soviet Union and awarded an Order of Lenin and Gold Star for defusing more than 26,000 explosives during the battles of Stalingrad and Kiev. He continued his job until 1956, disarming 16,000 more munitions along the way, finally retiring in 1964.
edDg TIL that Ferdinand Cheval, a postman, every day, for 35 years, picked up stones during his daily mail round. He used the stones to build ‘the perfect palace’, one of the most beautiful amateur architectural works known today.
mxJEy TIL the University of Cambridge (1209) is actually older than the Aztec Empire (1428)