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TIL Alexander Hamilton and James Madison both claimed to have written numbers 49-58 and 62-63 of the Federalist Papers. In 1964, a computer analysis of the text revealed that Madison was indeed the author of all 12 of those essays, despite Hamilton’s claim to the contrary.

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NXbEN TIL The chief executive of Royal Albert Hall was furious about The Beatles lyric stating, "the wrong-headed assumption that there are four thousand holes in our auditorium threatened to destroy its business overnight."
Z87Ma TIL that a man robbed a store while Marines were collecting donations outside. The subject was taken to the hospital with broken arms, ankle, leg, ribs, nose, jaw, several missing teeth. Injuries he sustained when he slipped and fell off the curb after stabbing a Marine.
p8k4A TIL Mozart had Tourette’s syndrome. 11 out of 25 people that were associated with him talked about “his perpetual movements and mannerisms, which were regarded as facial and bodily tics”.
nWNY7 TIL that the Rosetta Stone is just one of several tablets found throughout Egypt with the same decree written on it
dDyJj TIL that in 2011, Dutch TV hosts dine on fried human buttock and belly. Cannibalism is allowed in the Netherlands, as long as you legally obtain human flesh or limbs.