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TIL NASA mapping satellites discovered Mayan ruins that were overgrown by the jungle

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QNd5k TIL Mozart died at 35, and wrote 800 pieces, 22 pieces every year he lived.
9wDYr TIL Richard Scolyer, one of the world’s leading skin cancer researchers, was diagnosed with a stage 4 brain cancer, which is said to be terminal, so he used an experimental skin cancer treatment developed by him and his colleagues to treat it. One year later, the cancer still hasn't returned.
XEkl8 TIL Pete Best, original drummer of the Beatles, moved to America shortly after Best's firing from the Beatles and released an album titled 'Best of the Beatles' which confused record buyers and generated large sales numbers due to consumers believing that it was a compilation of Beatles songs.
oBNK TIL Michael Bolton from Office Space is also the voice of Dr. Wernstrom and Scruffy the Janitor on Futurama (and several other characters)
V0Lm TIL John Adams felt that though independence and a free government sounded appealing in theory, he feared “that in every assembly, members will obtain an influence by noise, not sense. By meanness, not greatness. By ignorance, not learning. By contracted hearts, not large souls.”