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TIL 'Tainted Love' was originally produced by Gloria Jones

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VRG8 TIL of Thiess of Kaltenbrun, a man accused of being a werewolf, who escaped death by fire in 1692 by claiming that he was sent by God to fight the devil and his witches
GYlp7 TIL cockroach farms grow billions of hem to be used in China to eat kitchen waste. After six months of their lifespan they are washed and dried to be sold for cattle feed or their essence to be extracted for medicinal purposes (curing oral and peptic ulcers, skin wounds and even stomach cancer)
dD7y9 TIL an autograph Beethoven manuscript was missing for 115 yrs until a librarian at a seminary in Philadelphia stumbled across it in 2005. It contains annotations by Beethoven which provide insight into his thought processes in the months before his death when he was deaf. It was sold for £1.1 milion
Wk4d TIL that Socrates was a soldier in the Peloponnesian War and was known for his exemplary service
Y76JB TIL: Joan and Melissa played themselves in the 1994 biopic "Tears and Laughter: The Joan and Melissa Rivers Story."