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

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VBlJk TIL of the ultra rare second-generation hybrid offspring of ligers and tigons — the litigon, liliger, tiliger and titigon.
lo6YA TIL Back in 2011, the travelling Picadilly Circus was scheduled to perform in Joplin, Missouri, until an EF-5 Tornado destroyed most of the city, rendering them unable to perform. As a result, the circus employees used their two adult elephants to help drag debris off the roads for first responders.
rReWd TIL Dartmouth’s unofficial mascot is a beer keg called “Keggy the Keg.” Created in 2003, it was initially controversial but is now part of the Dartmouth culture.
79db TIL that a few thousand years before Plato described Atlantis there really was a big island which disappeared in the middle of the North Sea
GA77G TIL President Gerald Ford was in college during the Depression. Desperate for money, every two months he sold his blood for $25