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Today I learned about the Heslington Brain, the oldest found preserved brain as it is over 2,600 years old

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m4Do TIL Beethoven actually intended many of his most famous pieces (including the 5th Symphony) to be played much faster than they are generally always played. So fast, in fact, that many professional orchestras are unable to successfully play them.
Wkon4 TIL That pure bred dogs are vastly more likely to have a genetic disorder than mixed breeds.
4Xpab TIL After Franz Ferdinand was shot he pleaded "Sophie dear! Don't die! Stay alive for our children!" after realizing his wife had been hit too.
ANlRx TIL that the Huns had no known written language. Other than the names of famous Huns, only three Hunnic words are known to have been preserved: medos (a mead-like drink), kamos (a barley drink), and strava (a funeral feast).
pRAA TIL The orange fruit was initially called a norange (from Arabic náranj), then the ‘n’ was dropped because people mistakenly thought the fruit was called 'an orange’. The linguistic change is called juncture loss.