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TIL Woody and Brett Harrelson were born to a hitman who murdered a federal judge

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N7dnM TIL that Mozart transcribed a piece of sacred music from the Vatican after hearing it performed twice, creating the only copy outside Rome.
v1o7D TIL that in June of last year, a swan living in Manchester, England died of a broken heart when teenagers threw bricks at her nest and killed all but one of her unborn cygnets and drove off her mate due to stress
9wAYp TIL in WW2, children in the Theresienstadt camp played concentration camp-related games including "gas chamber"
60Xm TIL that during the Second Angle-Afghan War, Afghan women would use an execution method against the British where they would prop the soldiers mouth open to prevent swallowing and then take turns urinating into the soldiers mouth to drown him with urine
d80KK TIL starting in 1782 the official motto of the United States was "Out of many, one" until it was changed in 1952 to "In god we trust"