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TIL Beethoven had a number one single on the US pop charts in 1976

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4mN TIL Korean baseball teams are named after companies that own them, not regions (an example is Samsung Lions)
6OM8 TIL the city of Dallas, Texas has lost every single one of 82 court cases against the same man, Robert Groden, over several decades.
lovlB TIL upon arrival to the shores of occupied Southern France, the allies were greeted by a lone Frenchman giving out champagne
N7Kg6 TIL Robert Frost couldn't read the poem he wrote for John F. Kennedy's inauguration due to the glare on the snow being too strong. So he instead recited one he knew from memory.
40Oa TIL that during the negotiations for the Treaty of Paris to end the American Revolutionary War, the French delegate told the English diplomat that the USA “would form the greatest empire in the world.” The English diplomat shot back, “Yes sir, and they will all speak English; every one of ‘em.”