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TIL Venus has Snow-Capped Mountains, but the “Snow” is Made of Metal

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QJ0Lk TIL that Niccolò Paganini was so talented at violin that people believed he had sold his soul to the devil. This idea was believed so intently that after Paganini died in 1840, priests refused to bury his body near a Church.
R7RX4 TIL the voice of Ike on South Park is Trey Parker’s 3 year old daughter Betty.
5VNrQ TIL that James Garfield once found a new, original proof of the Pythagorean theorm
yQXR8 TIL - Tress are being genetically modified to grow faster and withstand frost in an effort to provide renewable energy.
LQoO0 TIL that Otis Redding recorded "Sittin' On The Dock of the Bay" just three days before his death in a plane crash