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TIL that the music for the Christmas carol "Hark! The Herald Angels Sing" was taken from a cantata that was originally written by Felix Mendelssohn to celebrate the 400th anniversary of Gutenberg's printing press

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wLjV1 TIL about Neale McShane, an Aussie police officer who patrolled a beat of over 90,000 square miles (the size of the UK) all by himself.
l7BbV TIL controversial Minister Louis Farrakhan who has made many negative statements about Jewish People in the past is a symphony-level classic violin musician and in 1993 he performed a Mendessohn composition he said was an effort to heal a rift between him and the Jewish community.
OG5n6 TIL blood clots are squishy like jelly, making it possible to cough it up in the shape of your lungs
DQP9g TIL a man once broke a Guinness World Record by playing poker for 5+ days in a row with no sleep... AND WON
ZLmR TIL that after being shot twice by Leon Czolgosz, US President William McKinley told the artillery soldiers who were beating on Czolgosz to “Go easy on him boys.”