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TIL: How Beethoven Heard Music While Deaf 😮

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lo8E5 TIL of the postman in Ireland who managed to deliver a letter with just a hand drawn map and no address.
GY6Kj TIL most of the deaths caused by tropical cyclones are not caused by the wind but by the storm surge.
Wk8A8 TIL that queen bees do not have barbed stingers, and therefore can sting a person multiple times without dying.
69v87 TIL the moon is moving away from Earth by about 1.5 inches (3.8 centimeters) every year
yQN5w TIL when the first concrete bridge in Asia was opened in Muvattupuzha(India) in 1914, the chief engineer W H Emrald and his wife sat beneath the bridge in a boat while 15 elephants walked over it to convince the public that the bridge is strong & stable