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TIL John Lennon's song, "Because," is based on Beethoven's "Moonlight Sonata"

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a86WZ TIL the chief of the German military cabinet Graf von Hülsen-Haeseler died in 1908 dressed in a pink tutu after trying to lift the Kaiser’s mood, when he suffered a heart attack.
l7QXB TIL that Jonathan Swift authored the work The Benefit of Farting Explained, published under the pseudonym Don Fartinando Puff-Indorst, Professor of Bumbast in the University of Crackow
Wxko TIL Turkeys can reproduce asexually
Lk5Yr TIL that Scientists Hope to Clone a 40,000-Year-Old Extinct Horse. The baby horse was discovered in permafrost in eastern Siberia. The animal's tissue was preserved enough for scientists to obtain samples. There is no damage to the horse's carcass and even its hair is intact.
b9Oma TIL: During his sons kidnapping, Frank Sinatra Sr spoke with the kidnappers via payphone often. Worried that he wouldn't have enough change for the call he started to carry 10 dimes wherever he went. He continued to do this for the rest of his life, and was even buried with 10 dimes in his pocket.