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TIL the S in Harry S. Truman doesn't stand for anything

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W7v6d TIL that Jean-Jacques Rousseau developed a boustrophedon musical notation. This required the writer to write the second staff from right to left, then the one after from left to right, etc. Thus the musician avoided jumping a staff while reading.
ZpgAa TIL: In 2008 a man beheaded and ate a man’s eyes on a greyhound bus in Canada and was found not guilty of murder and is now roaming free
4Xr7b TIL a school closed a 20% achievement gap by adjusting to a more 'boy friendly' style
grv84 TIL Jimmy Buffett had to sue two entities for the right to open Margaritaville in Key West as they had copywrited the title and a woman in Hawaii copywrited Cheeseburger in Paradise. He had to fight to get the rights to the song he wrote.
DR6r TIL of the Latin phrase Amor fati which is loosely translated to “love of one’s fate”. It describes an attitude in which one sees everything that happens in their life, including suffering and loss, as good. It is characterized by an acceptance of the events or situations that occur