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TIL Matthew Perry Was Once a Top-Ranked Junior Tennis Player in Canada

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V478 TIL during the recording of Michael Jackson’s ‘Beat It’, the sound of Eddie Van Halen’s guitar caused the monitor speaker in the control room to catch fire during the solo, causing one engineer to exclaim, “This must be REALLY good.”
6ZlJ TIL there are still people who speak ancient Egyptian, as it is the language of the Coptic Church. Notable Egyptian contributions to English include the words “sack” and “ebony” and the name Susan.
wD9M TIL In 1901, while reconstructing Lincoln’s tomb, they opened his coffin to confirm he was still in there
KYaO9 TIL of Mozart's Piano Concerto 24. Composed in three weeks and without the full solo part written down, it is now considered Mozart's greatest ever piano concerto, and one of the greatest piano concertos of all time, with Beethoven remarking that "we shall never be able to do anything like that"
loleB TIL the name “Imogen” may well be a typo. Its first recorded use is in Shakespeare’s Cymbeline. It is thought that he wrote “Innogen”, a common Celtic name at the time. The printers misread the “nn” as “m” and thus a new name was born!