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TIL After becoming deaf, Beethoven found that by connecting a metal rod to a piano and biting it, he could sense the instruments vibrations through his jawbone, enabling him to 'hear' his music

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EWZ0 TIL that Joseph Heller, when told by an interviewer that he had “never produced anything else as good as Catch-22,” responded: “Who has?”
4keAo TIL about Pak Bean, a man from Pakistan that impersonates Mr Bean
mxrnv TIL that in Washington state you can challenge someone to mutual combat and fight in the street. Both parties have a free pass to engage in violence with their bare fists with no weapons. As long as both parties consent to the fight, the police will allow it to occur.
pjXN TIL Michael Phelps was once ranked No. 2 in his age class as a youth swimmer. The No. 1 swimmer was current NBA player Kris Humphries.
WkkJd TIL In 1961 a B-52 bomber broke up in mid-air and dropped an armed nuclear bomb near the city of Goldsboro, NC. The bomb did not detonate but the recently declassified report said that "one simple, dynamo-technology, low voltage switch stood between the United States and a major catastrophe".