› added 10 months ago

43

TIL that Mozart wrote a song for performer Adriana Ferrarese del Bene, who was known for nodding her head down on low notes and raising her head on high notes, that contained many jumps from low to high notes. This caused her head to move in a way that Mozart found amusing.

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

ype TIL that every natural number less than 10^126 is nameable.
5YXy9 TIL the Sioux have refused $1.3 billion in restitution for the seizure of the Black Hills by the U.S. Government, holding out for the return of some of their sacred ancestral lands
5Yd4Q TIL the famous inventor Nikola Tesla became interested in electricity after his cat gave him an electric shock
jDZa TIL that Fruit Roll-Ups, in compliance with a false advertising suit, cannot display fruit imagery on their packages if the flavor doesn’t actually contain that fruit.
PYwye TIL that in high school Weird Al Yankovic was a part-time accordion teacher and occasional accordion repo-man. And he has a degree in Architecture.