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TIL that when Consuelo Velázquez wrote her most famous song in 1932, Bésame mucho ("Kiss me a lot"), she had, according to her, never been kissed yet at the time.

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GYovE TIL that in Singapore, people who opt-out of donating their organs are put on a lower priority to receive an organ transplant than those who did not opt-out.
YDmd TIL there is a disease referred to as Stone Man Syndrome in which the body’s repair mechanism causes fibrous tissue (including muscle, tendon, and ligament) to be ossified when damaged.
p8nA8 TIL that in 1922 a suitcase containing almost everything the young Ernest Hemingway had written up to that time was stolen in a train station in Paris. No trace of this suitcase has ever been discovered, despite the fact that the unpublished stories it contained would be incredibly valuable.
97l7 TIL: In 1550’s France, Catherine de Medici was so disgusted by women with “thick waists”, she enforced a ban on them from her court - this lead to the widespread use of the corset throughout western civilization for the next 350 years.
l7pmA Today I learned F1 cars can have their engines disabled wirelessly via IP connection