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TIL that Thomas Jefferson once met Mozart to commission a piece for his wife. However, he was put off by Mozart's personality, and ended up not going ahead with the idea.

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Lk0WP TIL that the street in front of the U.S. Embassy in Bucharest was named in honor of Liviu Librescu, Romanian–American scientist and engineer. A prominent academic in addition to being a survivor of the Holocaust, he is renown for his heroism during the 2007 Virginia Tech Shooting.
KYAAG TIL The slipping on a banana peel gag was originated using the now extinct Big Mike banana, whose peel was actually slippery
BrPwK TIL Arnold, the main character from Hey Arnold! on Nickelodeon was first introduced on Pee Wee's Playhouse as a claymation character, appearing in three animated shorts in 1988
JlWm TIL the Oh My God Particle, an ultra high energy particle (a billion times more energy than the LHC’s output) that travels so absurdly fast, time dilation dictates that it would have experienced 16 days of time since the beginning of the universe
QN9ba TIL Saturn, the 6th planet from the Sun, has a giant 6-sided polygon (larger than the Earth) situated at its north pole. Coincidence?