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TIL Ludwig van Beethoven’s teacher wrote about him that, “If he continues like this, he will be, without a doubt, the new Mozart” when Beethoven was only 13

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D1lee TIL The Muppets were featured on the first season of SNL but they got a poor reception and were fired. Jim Henson then created a new set of Muppets and and The Muppet Show, which was a take-off of SNL. It was a success.
9YGj6 TIL about “ultraconserved” words, which are 23 words that have been mostly unchanged over 15,000 years and are currently in use in many languages today
kOaE1 TIL of Sessue Hayakawa, a Japanese actor who was one of the biggest stars in 1910s Hollywood while being an early sex symbol. After growing tired of playing stereotyped roles he created his own production company, helping improve public opinion on Asians, while making a staggering $2 million a year.
eVKg TIL Before doing Mythbusters, Adam and Jamie built a battlebot. It was banned from competitions for being too dangerous to the audience.
Vrp8 TIL people can learn to use echolocation so well that they can climb mountains and bike on streets blind