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TIL Despite his short life, 35 years, Mozart was able to influence the classical music scene with more than 800 works.representing every western classical genre of his time.

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jdmE TIL there is a species of fungus that only exists in Texas and rural Japan, and is thought to have been in both places for 19 million years
gkaD TIL that the scent of a familiar human evokes a reward response in the brain of a dog.
p8lAN TIL in the "The Famous Five" books, published in 1942, there is a 11-year-old character named Georgina who is a tomboy and demands that people call her "George". She often gets cross when anyone calls her by her real name and loves it when somebody mistakes her for a boy.
NXBJN TIL about the "My Way Killings" a social phenomenon in the Philippines that describes a string of 12 unrelated murders between 2002-2012 all related to Frank Sinatra's song My Way.
dD5bK TIL of a Victorian-era English recipe for a toast sandwich: Two pieces of bread with a slice of toast in between. Modern reviews have ranged from calling it “just not that good” to “an extravagance of blandness.”