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TIL that Beethoven wrote Moonlight sonata to a blind girl who wanted to know what was a moonlight like

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1m5W TIL Arizona doesn’t observe Daylight Savings time, except a large reservation in Arizona does, except another smaller reservation inside it doesn’t
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7rpv7 TIL of Anna Bates, a giantess from Canada. She was married to another giant, Martin van Buren, with whom she conceived worlds largest baby ever recorded weighing 10.7 Kg and measuring at 75cm tall.