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TIL that the main riff from Smoke on the Water by Deep Purple is derived from Beethoven's 5th symphony.

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mx8bx TIL of Genie Wiley, a girl who was raised in a dark isolated room with no indication of an outside world for the first 13 years of her life, her father was incredibly abusive, and when authorities rescued her she couldn't speak at all and only made infantile noises.
OZwe TIL in 1996 ASCAP threatened Girl Scouts of America for singing campfire songs without paying licensing fees.
Pe4g TIL Lawrence Singleton served just eight years in prison after raping a fifteen-year-old girl and cutting her arms off with a hatchet, California law was changed as a result. He went on to kill again.
YLEZ TIL that, while working for Sports Illustrated, Kurt Vonnegut was assigned to write a piece about a race horse jumping over a fence and attempting to escape. He stared at a blank piece of paper all morning then wrote, “The horse jumped over the fucking fence,” and then left.
mOOo TIL of the Gulabi Gang, a group of Indian women vigilantes and activists who attack abusive husbands and fight against child marriages, the dowry system, and female illiteracy.