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TIL - 2000 was the first year Martin Luther King Jr. Day was officially observed in all 50 states

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8K0G TIL that Mozart heard a starling at market whistling an unpublished tune he was working on – he bought the starling to preserve secrecy, recorded the melody it sang in his notebook, and gave it an elaborate funeral when it died three years later.
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