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Today I learned Mozart composed a song called “Kiss My Ass”

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OGMOg TIL that the iconic horses on the Kentucky licence plates in the 1990s were based on a logo of a horse park in Lexington which itself was based on a picture of semi-wild horses taken by a German photographer in the 1960s. The base was withdrawn when the photographer sued for copyright infringement.
LkXmr TIL of pro-butter Senator Gordon Roselip. In a 1955 Wisconsin senatorial blind taste test Roselip preferred margarine, insisting it was butter. It later transpired that Roselip’s wife, worried about his heart, had for years been substituting yellow margarine for butter at the Senator’s dinner table.
W71WL TIL Human skeletons today are much lighter and more fragile than those of our ancient ancestors. Research suggests that this is a result of modern humans’ sedentary lifestyle
YQQv TIL that in 1922, Sir A. Butt was elected MP of Tooting
QJ6yd TIL that German virologist Christian Drosten discovered SARS-CoV in 2003 and developed a test for the virus. His research group also developed a test for MERS-CoV in 2012. He then went on to develop a test for SARS-CoV-2 and made it available worldwide on the internet in January 2020.