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TIL Mozart wrote music for the Glass Armonica.

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PrXJ TIL that Heinrich Ehrler, a German Ace in WW2, shot down two bombers and rammed the last one, destroying both planes in the process. His last words were “Theo, Heinrich here. Have just shot down two bombers. No more ammunition. I’m going to ram. Auf Wiedersehen, see you in Valhalla!”
WBVY TIL Louis Le Prince, who filmed the first ever motion pictures, disappeared without a trace in 1890. Thomas Edison soon took credit as the first and sole inventor of cinema, and even took Le Prince’s son to court to dispute it. Few years later, the son also died under mysterious circumstances.
QJXVL TIL The largest octopus species in the world, the giant Pacific octopus, has three hearts, nine brains, and blue blood.
pYy5O TIL two of the tallest people alive in 1871 married, martin van buren bates, and Anna Haining (the prior measuring 7 foot 9 inches, weighing 475 pounds, the latter being 7 foot 11, 212 pounds) and had two still born children, both being far more giant than babies even on the larger end of the scale
Z8vGp TIL that 1984 by George Orwell was banned in the USSR for being Anti-Communist, but also banned in the USA for being Pro-Communist.