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TIL Johann Wolfgang von Goethe planned a stage sequel to Mozart's Magic Flute called "The Magic Flute Part Two."

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9ZO6 TIL that in medical dramas, about 66% of patients who are administered CPR survive long enough to be discharged from the hospital. In reality, depending on the circumstances CPR has a success rate between 2% and 18%.
BgXXe TIL about Charles Daniels, a little-known photographer who shot tens of thousands of pictures of famous rock stars during the 1960s and 70s, and has been sitting on "roughly 3,200 rolls of undeveloped film".
ZK5G TIL an Indian flight attendant hid the passports of American passengers on a hijacked flight to save them from the Islamic terrorists. She died while shielding three children from a hail of bullets.
ovLK TIL, that in 2005, documentary film makers gave a homeless person $100,000 in cash, and followed him to see what he would do with the money. 6 months later, he was completely broke and back in the same place he was before the windfall.
p891A TIL that in 1898 doctors began to suspect that smoking caused lung cancer, despite the fact that there were only 140 published cases of the then rare disease in 1900