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TIL that"Piano Man", Billy Joel's signature song, is in the National Recording Registry, along with Martin Luther King's "I have a dream" speech.

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Pn4G TIL In 1919 Michael Keogh stopped an angry mob of 200 men (some with bayonets) from killing two right winged political agents they were beating up. In 1930 at a Nuremburg rally, Keogh recognized one of the agents he had saved. It was Adolf Hitler.
7rOdb TIL that it's law in New Mexico that Pluto is still a planet when it passes over the state.
kb0e TIL that the number of planets in the observable universe outnumber the sum of all sounds, words, and noises uttered by every human who has ever lived.
vAWr TIL The maternity ward of Dutch princess Juliana (sheltered in Canada during WW2) was declared international territory so that the child would be born in no country and inherit Dutch citizenship. In gratitude, she sent 100,000 tulips paving the way for the Canadian Tulip Festival.
0nb5 TIL a 12 year old boy who saw his own father murdered by a family friend, avenged the death of his father by killing the alleged murderer in a revenge attack he had planned for 12 years. He cut him into 12 pieces, one each for the years of wait.