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TIL that Mozart's real name was "Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart"

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69vE8 TIL That Americans of Irish decent donated about three times more money towards the Irish war of independence than the people of Ireland raised through the "National Loan" program set up by the new national government to fund the rebellion.
rR7X0 TIL Benjamin Franklin said "In 1736 I lost one of my sons... by the smallpox taken in the common way. I long regretted bitterly and still regret that I had not given it to him by inoculation. This I mention for the sake of the parents who omit that operation..."
78xPZ TIL Kenneth Lamar Noid, a mentally ill man who believed that the Domino's "Avoid the Noid" campaign was personally directed towards and was antagonizing him, entered a Domino's restaurant in Chamblee, Georgia. Armed with a .357 Magnum, Noid then held two employees hostage for over five hours.
KDWG TIL: Before he dropped it, Prince Phillip’s surname was Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg
78NQb TIL that high pressure reverses anesthesia and alcohol inebriation, deep sea divers experiencing high pressure are resistant to anesthesa and alcohol. This helped reveal how anesthesa works