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TIL That the Pulitzer Prize winning 1619 project is full of historical inaccuracies that were pointed out by nationally recognized historians and ignored

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5YWWk TIL the ‘infinity symbol’ is called a Lemniscate.
0v7j TIL Beethoven won a sight reading piano competition by turning his sheet music upside down, playing it, then improvising on one of its themes for thirty minutes. His opponent, Daniel Steibelt, never returned to challenge him again.
wLwx7 TIL photography film was made with only Caucasian skin in mind and Kodak only really developed the technology to colour balance darker skin tone by chance- because of complaints over poor light calibration from makers of brown furniture.
yV5yp TIL that Peter Dinklage’s brother Jonathan is the lead violinist and concertmaster of the Hamilton Broadway orchestra.