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TIL ethics books are 50% more likely to be stolen from libraries than other philosophy books

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kk1E TIL that Beethoven hated authority and social rank (he was a commoner), so much that he would stop playing if aristocrats talked during his performances.
R7ka7 TIL of serial killer Mack Ray Edwards, a Caltrans subcontractor who would bury some of his victims under the highways he built. Not all the bodies of his victims have been found
d8dkj TIL that Americans spend more time watching other people on television cook than they do cooking themselves.
x9Qk TIL After 21 years of guitar playing, jazz guitarist Pat Martino had a brain aneurysm that left him without the ability to play guitar. He taught himself how to to play again by listening to his old recordings.
X0GvR TIL that the man holding the American flag standing behind George Washington in the painting "Washington Crossing the Delaware" is 18 year old future president James Monroe