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

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a87rL TIL Soren Kierkegaard's first publish work was a panned review of Hans Christian Andersen. It ignited a life-long feud between the two Danes. Andersen responded by caricaturing the existentialist in "The Galoshes of Fortune," where Kierkegaard is portrayed as an annoying parrot who makes no sense.
v1bXx TIL At the age of thirty-five, Martin Luther King, Jr., was the youngest man to have received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964. When notified of his selection, he announced that he would turn over the prize money of $54,123 to the furtherance of the civil rights movement.
Oov8g TIL stunt performer and Jack-Ass star, Steve-O was born in Wimbledon, London
WZad TIL that after defeating the Persians, Alexander The Great started dressing like them and took two Persian wives.
e5x6 TIL that the word goodbye comes from an abbreviation of ‘God be with ye’ (godbwye)