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TIL Nobuo Uematsu, the original composer of the Final Fantasy series, was voted into the top 20 of the Classic FM Hall of Fame. Higher than at least 1 Beethoven work.

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Z8AKa TIL The house of Gavrilo Princip, assassin of Franz Ferdinand, was destroyed in WW1. It was then rebuilt as a museum and was then destroyed during WW2. Afterwards it was rebuilt, only to be destroyed in the Yugoslav Wars. It was again rebuilt in 2015.
VBYG TIL Sweden offers free language lessons for immigrants
d8PA7 TIL Bryan Ferry (of Roxy Music) was on a flight to Nairobi when a mentally ill passenger broke into the cockpit and attacked the pilots. During the struggle the plane dropped 12,000 feet in 25 seconds, which is the fastest rate of descent from which any civil aircraft has ever recovered.
9YnxX TIL in 2005 Stevie Wonder released “So What The Fuss” collaborating with Prince and En Vogue. This was the first descriptive music video for the visually impaired. Narrated by Busta Rhymes.
gN8b TIL that during the Great Depression, as many as 2 million people of Mexican descent were deported to Mexico without due process. An estimated 1.2 million were US citizens.