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TIL 2013 was the first year since 1987 to feature four different numbers

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9YvpD TIL that Thomas Jefferson once met Mozart to commission a piece for his wife. However, he was put off by Mozart's personality, and ended up not going ahead with the idea.
KrZw TIL that when Douglas Adams was writing Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, he created the Infinite Improbability Drive whenever he had no clue how to rescue Arthur and Ford when they were shot into space.
p8rnQ TIL the first detailed medical description of Parkinson's Disease is over 200 years old, yet we still don't know what causes it, how to detect it before symptoms show, and there is still no cure.
vPReK TIL that the African Union has a 43-party free trade zone for goods, stretching from South Africa to Tunisia
wopKP TIL Navy SEAL Team 6, the famed covert unit that killed Bin Laden, was named to make US Special Forces seem more plentiful to the Soviets; only SEAL Teams 1 and 2 existed prior.