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78QAO TIL A musician's 50lb contrabassoon in its case worth $36,000 disappeared from a hallway in 2016. It mysteriously reappeared in 2022 after a young man phoned, saying he found the instrument in a snowbank in perfect condition. However it now belongs to an insurance company rather than original owner
KYV8R Today I learned that once, while Elton John was visiting Groucho Marx, Marx playfully pretended to shoot John by pointing his fingers at him like a pistol, and John replied, "Don't shoot me, I'm only the piano player!" John later used this quote as the title of one of his albums.
78loP TIL the largest known Prime Number is 2^82,589,933− 1. It contains 24,862,048 digits, and a search for a potential larger Prime is ongoing.
VBwnk TIL that it took a month for Ernő Rubik to solve a wooden block prototype of the Rubik's Cube
6jdm TIL of Kiyoko Matsumoto, who in 1933 committed suicide by jumping into a volcanic crater on the island of Oshima. Japan. This started a trend in Japan, and in the year after her death 944 other people (804 men and 140 women) leapt into the same crater