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TIL the Vatican had music which was forbidden to be copied and was only played twice per year. The piece was kept secret for almost 150 years until a 14 year old Mozart listened to it and transcribed it from memory.

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ZNJR TIL: Theres a delusion known as Truman Syndrome, is a type of persecutory delusion in which people believe their lives are staged plays, reality television shows, or are being watched on cameras in general.
DQpMg TIL The U.S. Government Sends a Handful of People 300 Joints per Month. The Program Was Shut Down in 1992, With Only 13 Patients Being Grandfathered In.
5Jd9 TIL that Canada Post has assigned postal code H0H 0H0 to the North Pole.
vPRrr TIL that when a poisonous gas leak was found at 11:45pm immediately before the Bhopal disaster in 1984 that killed thousands, a decision was made to do something about it after the 12:15am tea break.
N76o6 TIL a dog named Sundance (Sunny) was trained to go get a grocery list from his neighbor who is self-quarantining due to medical conditions that put her at high-risk such as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and then he brings the groceries over to her front door every night.