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AD0yg TIL the Roadrunner not only eats rattlesnakes, but they beat the absolute shit out of them before they eat them.
LQodZ TIL the ship USS Samuel B Robert's is the deepest shipwreck ever found and photographed at four and one half miles deep in the Philippine sea.
XEZLj TIL: Beethoven was not a prodigy as Mozart was and had shown no special abilities or intelligence in his childhood. Even later in his twenties, when he moved to Vienna he had a late start, no report from his early days mentioning him as unique talent or a possible successor of Mozart, Haydn.
9nEQ TIL that a convent of nuns in the Middle Ages began to meow like cats and others followed until all would meow together at a certain time for several hours together. This continued until the surrounding village called soldiers to force the nuns to stop their meowing.
4X7dJ TIL of the Burnden Park Disaster, a crowd crush at a football match in Bolton, England in 1946 in which 33 people were killed. 30 minutes after the crush, with the dead laying at the side of the pitch, the game restarted.