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TIL that despite popular anecdotes it is highly unlikely that Mozart and Beethoven ever met.

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xVQQ7 TIL that the rarest stamp in the world (the 1856 British Guiana 1c magenta) - of which only one specimen exists - has broken the world record stamp price each of the last four times it has been sold. It was sold for 6s, £120, £150, $36,000, $40,000, $280,000, $935,000, and most recently $9,480,000
6EdEQ TIL of Daphne Caruana Galizia, an investigative journalist from Malta who reported on government corruption and money-laundering. She died in a car bomb attack close to her home on 16 October 2017, and her last words were "There are crooks everywhere you look now. The situation is desperate."
VMxEB TIL The organizers of the 2022 World Games excluded the Haudenosaunee Confederacy (Iroquois) team because it wasn't a "sovereign nation." The Ireland team has bowed out to allow the game's inventors, who are also ranked 3rd worldwide, to play.
BrJlb TIL Alexander Scourby recorded the first audio book version of the King James Bible. The American Bible Society distributed the recordings as The Talking Bible, a set of 169 LP records with a running time of 84.5 hours. Scourby recorded 422 books and considered Talking Books his most important work.
vP6M4 TIL That Crown shyness is a phenomenon observed in some tree species, in which the crowns of fully stocked trees do not touch each other, forming a canopy with channel-like gaps