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Today I learned that Beethoven continued to compose music even after he went completely deaf. He used the vibrations from his piano to "hear" his compositions.

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9wJJp TIL: Terry Fox, a Canadian hero, ran across Canada in 1980 to raise funds for cancer research despite having lost a leg to cancer. His Marathon of Hope inspired millions and led to the annual Terry Fox Run, which continues to support cancer research globally. 🇨🇦🏃‍♂️ #TIL #TerryFox
ZbMR TIL of Pope Celestine V, who did not wish to be elected pope. His only act was to pronounce that popes could abdicate, after which he abdicated.
Me6a8 TIL Timothée Chalamet & Luca Guadagnino both independently experimented with a peach to test the authenticity of a pitted peach being used in the narrative as a masturbation tool.
YpKvA TIL Horses have blind spots on the front and back of their body. Keeping a hand on their body while walking around them decreases chances of kicking out of shock or fear.
KbPw TIL the ellipsis (three dots…) is it’s own Unicode character (U+2026). Try highlighting just one of these dots… This is why you get interesting spacing when typing out strings of periods on Microsoft Word, it tries to autocorrect 3 periods in a row into ellipses thus slightly changing the spacing.