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TIL In 2019, 47 of Beethoven's surviving relatives met up for Beethoven's birthday in his hometown of Bonn, Germany. In 2020, Bonn - along with multiple other German cities - will celebrate Beethoven’s 250th birthday

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8kvK TIL Sleeping Beauty (in 1634) gets a sliver, falls apparently dead, is hidden by her father, found unconscious and raped by a king out hunting, gives birth to two children who wake her up, so the king burns his wife alive to be with her (after the wife tried to kill and eat the babies)
R5l1a TIL the founder of the Mayo Clinic taught osteology using the skeleton of an executed Dakota chief that had been stolen from his grave. The remains were not returned until the 1990s
Lk5n9 TIL in 2001-2002, Afghan children mistook unexploded US cluster bombs for food packages because of their similar shape and yellow packaging. Several children were maimed and even killed as a result.
Wpm4 TIL: Bill Nye’s father was in a POW camp for four years during WWII
plr4 TIL that emergency and city transit vehicles have an infrared emitter to forcibly change traffic lights.