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TIL that Beethoven didn't know how to read a metronome and that's why his tempo indications are slower than what feels right (+-12bpm). After decades of theorising about it, turns out he was just writing down the number on the bottom of the metronome's upper weight, not the top.

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5YDM8 TIL The original English version of the Deck the Halls line "don we now our gay apparel" was "fill the meadcup, drain the barrel"
pYAEp TIL that the gentoo penguin is capable to reach speeds up to 36 km/h, making him the fastest underwater swimmers of all penguins.
loGBa TIL Annually around 40 million Olive Ridley hatchlings are born in Odisha coast of India and they are monitored around the year from adults laying eggs to birth. Fishing and commercial activities are banned around particular coast. One of the most successful conservation story.
XoW6 TIL the US is the only country in the world that does not have the numerical value on the face of its coins, nor have their bill denominations in different sizes, making it difficult to identify currency for foreigners and blind people.
xYKB TIL that the craving to eat non-nutritive things like ice, chalk and dirt is symptomatic of a condition/disorder called pica